402 Successful Method of managing Aquatic and Bog Plants. 



As in a botanic garden, the stronger kinds of plants 

 must of necessity be taken up, from time to time, to be 

 cleansed, to have their roots pruned, and to be set in better 

 order, an apparatus of this description facilitates the labour 

 greatly ; you not only get at the plants, altogether, more 

 conveniently than when they are in ponds, but you may 

 also treat the plants in any given division, as you like, 

 without interfering, in the least, with the other divisions. 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES. 

 Fig. l. 



A. One of the large reservoirs, with a low jet, or fountain 



underneath. 



B. The turf borders of the division for aquatic plants. 



C. The troughs for the aquatic plants. 



D. The sink or drain by which the water flows off. 



E. The concave beds for bog-plants. 

 H. The footpaths about the troughs. 



a. b. Course of the water out of the reservoir into the troughs. 

 £. «. The outlets from the troughs into the beds for the bog- 

 plants. 



Fig. 2. 



A. The posts for supporting the troughs. 



B. The supporting cross pieces. 



C. Section of the trough. 



D. Section of the footway. 



E. Section of the concave bed. 



F. Pipe conveying the water to the bed. 



