VIII 



FLOWERS BY WATER SIDE AND ON 

 THE WATER SURFACE 



A PLEASUBABLE featuTC of many modern gardens 

 consists of the wealth of flowers by the lake or 

 pond side, and on the surface of the water itself. 

 This has been brought about largely by the beauti- 

 ful work of M. Latour-Marliac, who has given 

 us the exquisite hybrid water-lilies or nymphaeas 

 which he has obtained by crossing with a view to a 

 variety of rich and subtle colours ; and this love of 

 flowers that delight to float on the water surface 

 or to have their feet in the moist soil by the pond 

 or water edge is shown in many of the public parks. 

 Regent's Park occurring to mind as one of the most 

 notable instances. It is interesting to learn that 

 this phase of gardening is spreading in the United 

 States, and the following words of wisdom by Mr. 

 Jackson Dawson, superintendent of the famous 



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