CHAPTER XXVI 
WATER GARDENS AND OTHER THINGS 
T here is one kind of a garden that interests 
Joseph and me as onlookers. This is a 
water garden, or, more plainly, a small pond with 
lilies floating on its surface, and numbers of water- 
loving plants thriving about its edges. At Nestly 
Heights there are two such water gardens. Hap- 
pily for Mr. Hayden, the ponds were formed 
naturally, and he had but to make them beautiful 
by planting appropriate flowers in and about them. 
Here, however, there is no pond, and to make one 
at the moist point of the triangle would be too 
costly an undertaking for Joseph and me. 
Mr. Hayden is fond of his water gardens. He 
can even relate the scientific names of the pink, 
blue and yellow lilies which float on their surfaces, 
not far from the wonderful lotus, making ready 
to bloom. Except for the different colours of these 
water-lilies, they appear just like the sweet white 
one, which is known to every boy and girl. Yet 
they are different from the common pond-lily in 
not being hardy. When Joseph and I peered down 
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