11, Tricker’s Victoria (V. Cruziana, commonly called V. Trickeri). 
Sometimes self-sows in the southern United States and has been Known to do so at Philadelphia. 
Caroliniana), the duckweeds (Lemna), and 
the Salvinia (S. natans) are interesting. 
Where the lawn dips to the water’s edge 
a clump of marsh mallows (Hibiscus Mos- 
cheutos) will bloom. This is well known 
as an ordinary garden plant. The great 
open flowers, white with red centre, or 
pink, are often five inches across. They 
bloom very freely through the middle and 
late summer. Japanese Iris, too, in all 
their multiplicity of splendor, flourish near 
the margin of the pond. 
It would lead us too far to speak of the 
riches that the borders of the pond will 
harbor. Only in passing can we glance at 
two or three nooks beside our way. Here 
in a little bay a stately group of cat-tails 
(Typha), narrow-leaved and broad, is way- 
ing. Behind them a bushy brake of ferns 
(Pteris and Woodwardia), willows and the 
swamp magnolia (IM. glauca) leads on into 
the woodland. This boggy place begins 
with the common arrow-leaf (Sagittaria 
latifolia). As it wades out into deeper 
water its leaves are as thin as grass, but 
they get broad and oval where their stalks 
are not at all submerged. Among the 
grasses, and the curious horsetails, rise the 
stalks of great lobelia (L. syphilitica), 
the cardinal flower (L. cardinalis), and 
This species comes frum Paraguay and requires much less artificial heat than Wictoria regiae 
Details in September, page 72 
their hybrids. What is more brilliant than 
the spike of the cardinal flower? And 
beside them stand the aristocratic family 
of the flowering ferns (Osmunda)—noble 
ferns of great size and hardiness. Or per- 
haps in tropical luxuriance beside our 
Nymphea gigantea, the bog is decorated 
with banana (Musa Ensete), the giant rhu- 
barb-like leaves of the Gunnera (G. manicata 
and G. Chilensis), shoots of Paulownia (P. 
imperialis), cannas, and the like. On yonder 
rocky promontory 1s a ruddy Japanese maple 
(Acer palmatum var. atre purpureum) while in 
crevices of the rock the dainty maidenhair 
fern (Adiantum pedatum) is growing. 
Fresh Vegetables All Winter—by Effie M. Barron, *% 
HOW TO HAVE A CELLAR FULL OF 
SHOW AT A GLANCE WHEN TO START EACH KIND, HOW 
“QUALITY”’ 
ROOT CROPS—WITH PLANTING TABLES 
THAT 
TO GROW IT AND HOW TO STORE IT 
[Eviror’s Nore—The fourth of the series of “Quality Vegetables for the Home Garden.” Mrs. Barron was formerly teacher of cookery under the London School Board.| 
HE ideal vegetable root is a_ well 
formed,—juicy, succulent one, crisp 
yet tender, of fine texture, without stringiness 
or sponginess and of high flavor. 
If the skin looks dry and shrivelled and 
the root looks “off color,” if, when you 
pinch it the flesh seems soft and flabby, 
you may be sure the inside will be spongy, 
wooly, and dry. 
Potatoes will sprout if they are kept where 
183 
light can penetrate. This sprouting changes 
the composition of the potato. The shoots 
feed upon the starch. This breaks up 
and decomposes the starch grains, making 
the tuber soft and watery, and unfit as 
