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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1913 



various aquatic plants flour- 

 ish, including Water Hya- 

 cinths from the St. John's 

 River, Florida, and Parrot's 

 Feather from Louisiana, and 

 a rapidly increasing school of 

 gold fish. The pride of this 

 lake, however, for the past 

 two seasons, has been the 

 Victoria Regia ("Trickeri") 

 the "water platter of the 

 Amazon," which, with its 

 beautifui leaves and gor- 

 geous flowers has attracted 

 much attention, the first and 

 only plants of the kind which 

 have been grown and 

 flowered in the open in this 

 section of Ohio. The lake 

 has been christened "Lac de 



add a rock garden to the 

 general scheme and this idea 

 is now being attempted as a 

 part of the "Allegheny 

 Mountains" and bordering 

 the north shore of "Lac de 

 Coeur." Much work is yet 

 to be done on the river 

 terraces, but the joy of plan- 

 ning and working it out has 

 been the diversion and solace 

 of an active business man 

 who, out of office hours, has 

 found health and recreation 

 in his communion with nature 

 in the garden of his own 

 efforts. The public has been 

 freely admitted to enjoy the 

 beauties of the garden which 

 is locally known as "Spangler 



The terrace walk 



Coeur" by the ladies of the family from its heart-shaped Park," and it has become one of the show places of the 



design, and the tiny island a witty friend named The Isle city. This liberty has not been abused and the owner 



of Man. The mound of earth at the west end of the lake rejoices that he can share the sweet influences of his garden 



from which a jetting spring and waterfall of rustic stone with his friends and neighbors. It is possible that the 



and cement work, not yet completed, will feed the lake has perusal of this story of a garden that has happily worked 



been called the Allegheny Mountains; beyond which an open out to be a joy not only to its owner but to the community 



lawn bordered by irregular chumps of many varieties of in which it is placed will suggest to others the possibility 



shrubbery furnishes a third and interesting landscape sec- of reclaiming waste places, especially as there are so many 



tion of the garden. towns and cities situated on river sides throughout the 



A recent journey abroad with visits to the Rock gardens country that have paid scant attention to their opportuni- 



of England and Scotland, has produced a strong desire to ties in the way of making garden spots out of barren places. 



Another view of the terrace and balustrade overlooking the river 



