who first arranges a border of shrubs with reference to an artistic com- 
bination of form and color will do a great thing for sensible and eco- 
nomical American gardening." 
Louisa King, 
Garden Club of Michigan. 
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It might be interesting to some members of the Garden Club to 
know that the Pink Egyptian Lotus is established and growing in our 
pond on Long Island. 
About fifteen years ago we bought some roots, put them in paper 
boxes filled with earth and threw them into the pond, which is nowhere 
over 2 feet deep, with a bottom of very deep black mud, hoping to see 
them growing the next year, but with no success. 
Three or five years went by and we forgot all about the "Lotus." 
One summer we noticed some large leaves growing up above the 
water; and then came the beautiful large pink flowers with its golden 
crown in the center. Each year they increased, and now they are all 
over the pond, as many as seventy-five in bloom at a time in August. 
Mrs. Harold Herrick, 
The Garden Club of Lawrence. 
As we were strolling through one of the interesting streets of 
Bremen, on our last morning before sailing for home, we came upon a 
shop with four little pots of Edelweiss in its window. Until that 
moment it had not occurred to us that Edelweiss ought to be in every 
self-respecting rock garden, no matter how small it might be. "But 
these plants," we said to each other, "must be frightfully expensive; 
beside which it would be utterly impossible to get them across the sea 
alive." No, we must put the thought from our minds; it was out of 
the question. 
One hour later those four precious little plants, guarded by my 
husband and myself, were on the way to our ship. They proved good 
sailors, and arrived in New York with their heads up, looking very 
perky. 
We placed them on the very edge of the sea in the pockets of the 
rocks beside the front door of our little home in Maine. There they 
have bloomed every summer for twelve years. Last year, owing to 
the enthusiasm of "the hired man," who "wed the hull place" before 
we arrived, only four flowers greeted us. We have never given them 
any especial care, except to have them protected by pine boughs in the 
autumn. 
Alice Louise Hyde. 
P. S. — The plants cost thirty-five cents a pot. 
