PLANTS FOR MOIST AND BOGGY 

 GROUND 



In the immediate vicinity of a sheet of water, by the 

 side of a stream where the ground at a little distance 

 falls rather below the water's ordinary level, in deep 

 and sudden depressions such as are sometimes met with 

 in woods and in spots where a wood abruptly terminates 

 at a high, almost perpendicular bank skirted by low 

 ground into which the drainage from the wood slowly 

 oozes, are to be found sites particularly adapted to the 

 needs of many beautiful plants that refuse to thrive 

 where the summer sun can parch the soil about their 

 roots, and are only happy when provided with a moist 

 resting-place. Some of these plants succeed perfectly 

 in the full sunshine, others delight in the shade of 

 deciduous trees. In the following list some of the most 

 attractive of these are named. 



Caltha palustris. — Marsh Marigold. A plant that adds 

 much to the beauty of the landscape in late spring, its 

 bright yellow gleaming from boggy places, from river 

 banks and from the margins of still pools. It succeeds 

 anywhere if the soil be damp, both in sunshine and 

 shade. The double variety is less beautiful than the 

 type. 



Cardamine. — C. palustris, Cuckoo Flower. This grows 

 well in damp meadows and in marshy spots. There is 

 a double form also found wild which is pretty. 



Cypripedium. — Lady's Slipper. C. spectabile, the 

 Mocassin Flower, is the largest and most charming 



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