Good border planting for a pool with just enough Lily pads on the water’s surface. 
(Samuel Knopf, Cedarhurst, L. I.) 
columns at back materially help the picture. 
more cultivated compan- 
ions, and how much of real 
charm, a charm which is 
due to their appropriate- 
ness, they lend to the 
water near which they 
grow. 
If the pool is to have a 
friendly, intimate feeling, 
the planting should ex- 
tend in places to the 
water’s edge. Nothing is 
colder and less inviting 
than the stone-rimmed 
pool set in the midst of 
gravel. It has a harsh un- 
gracious look, that just a 
few leaves bending over 
the edge would mitigate, 
or astray vine soften. On 
the other hand it is bad to 
surround a pool entirely 
with flowers and shrubs so 
as to make it inaccessible. 
Places for planting near 
the border should be in- 
corporated in the design in 
some such way as that 
shown on the accompany- 
ing plan which provides 
walks to the water’s edge 
and intervals two feet wide 
between for Iris or Ferns or 
Grasses. 
Planting for the surface 
of the water has its diffi- 
culties as well, not the least of which 
More often than not pools too 
small to warrant such huge leaves are 
planted with Lotus, or tall Cat-tails, or 
both, when their size really demands the 
smallest of the Nymphaeas and the fine 
leaves of Spike Rush or Scirpus Tabernae. 
Most aquatics grow rapidly and unless they 
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Suggested planting for a formal pool in which walks at intervals approach clear to the water’s edge 
are constantly thinned out they cover the 
entire water surface and leave no mirror 
to reflect bending purple Flags, and white 
clouds. With a little taste and care in 
thinning—the groups of Lily pads and 
Grasses remaining, may be made into com- 
positions interesting and pleasing in them- 
selves. contrast. 
boast boulders. 
however formal its character, those things 
should grow which emphasize the feeling of 
water, and if the pool is a large one, the 
flowers and shrubs may be correspondingly 
big, whereas, if it is small, they must not 
reduce its size still more, by too great 
JuLty, 1916 
Around even a formal pool one should plant such reminders of marshy places as Iris and 
(James Parmelee, Washington, D. C., Chas. A. Platt, designer) 
The aquatics in the 
average pool, should con- 
sist of hardy varieties 
which may be bedded in 
the pool bottom itself, 
rather than the tender 
sorts which are usually for 
convenience sake, planted 
in pots. The pots are too 
apt to show through the 
water, and introduce an 
artificial quality which de- 
tracts from the grace of 
the pool. 
Fitness, which is only a 
synonym for appropriate- 
ness depends, in pool 
planting as in all other 
kinds, upon attention to 
details which will empha- 
size the character of the 
area to be planted, details 
which will contribute to 
the effect we wish to pro- . 
duce. In a rock garden 
we plant alpines, plants 
which naturally make 
their homes in the scant 
pockets of earth between 
rocks, and if the stones are 
not large, we use the 
smaller flowering and 
smaller foliaged plants, re- 
serving those with coarse 
leaves and large flowers 
for the garden which can 
Similarly, about a pool, 
