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Sweet flag — a single clump kept well down 
in size—would be the complement of this; 
and then I should say that the water 
hyacinth was about the best choice that 
could be made for the third element — the 
minor straggler. It travels about under 
the impetus of the breeze and is really 
and truly a vagabond, as a matter of fact, 
giving the touch of uncertainty that only 
such can give. Under water both eel grass 
and water weed — and a pair of goldfish to 
every tubful of water in quantity. Even 
the pool that is only a tub should have 
these. 
Planting and care I have left to the last, 
because what applies to one plant of this 
class practically applies to all. The soil 
for aquatics should be rich; they should 
invariably be fully exposed to the sun; and 
the water must be still water. Moreover, 
when the pool requires filling it must he 
done very gently and slowly, that the tem¬ 
perature may not be lowered. The best 
practice adds each day what is lost by 
evaporation during the twenty-four hours ; 
no more, no less. And the easiest and 
best way to add this is in the form of a 
gentle spray thrown from a fine sprinkler. 
If it is possible to get the soil from a 
pond bottom or from a swamp, by all 
means do so. Mix this with a third of 
rotted manure and spread over the pond 
bottom to the depth of one foot at least. 
If such natural soil is not available use old 
sod mixed with a third or more of cow 
manure and add bone meal in proportion 
of a pound to a plant (water lily) every 
spring. Pack the soil well down and cover 
it with a two-inch layer of coarse sand 
followed by pebbles. This ensures clear 
water and a very charming background 
for the activities of the goldfish. 
The hardy lilies which I have listed may 
stay in the ground all winter, but the 
water must be drawn off before freezing 
in all save naturalistic clay-bottom ponds. 
Put a dressing of leaves in the water’s 
place right up to edge of the basin and 
cover with boards to keep these in place. 
On the pool’s margin seeds of water 
clover— Marsilia — may be scattered, or 
forget-me-nots may be planted close to 
hide the brim, if it is of cement and shows. 
It is not necessary in all cases, however, 
to hide this. Indeed, it is sometimes much 
better, in a formal design, to leave it un¬ 
covered, unless it stands more than two 
inches above the turf surrounding it. 
Efficiency in the Flower Garden 
(Continued from page 21) 
(Angelica tree), Hydrangea, Smoke Tree, 
mock orange and the Japanese maples. 
For hedges and borders: Berberis (Bar¬ 
berry), Boxwood, Pyrus (Japan Quince), 
Privet, Rosa rugosa. 
Of the above, lilac gives universal satis¬ 
faction and has been cultivated during the 
last decade and developed into wonderful 
new varieties, which make a collection of 
them extremely interesting; forsythia, an 
old favorite, but always popular; spiraea, 
one of the healthiest, most dependable and 
most graceful of all the flowering shrubs; 
weigela, one that will stand extreme 
neglect; heather and heath, which are ex¬ 
tremely beautiful but particular in their 
wants, requiring a rather moist soil; the 
strawberry shrub, with its peculiarly 
fascinating fragrant and unique flowers; 
the hardy hydrangeas, which soon make 
themselves as permanent a feature of the 
place as the front gate; boxwood, for neat, 
trim, formal little edgings about the gar¬ 
den ; privet, for a tall, dense hedge to give 
you privacy from the public highway ; bar¬ 
berry, if you are fortunately situated and 
so far from the highway that you can 
afford to be less exclusive; and the rock 
hardy rugosas, which may be had in sev¬ 
eral handsome varieties as well as in the 
plain, more familiar, single white, which 
will spread of themselves, take care of 
themselves, and will resist any insects or 
disease which has yet appeared, making 
the place beautiful throughout the summer 
and well into the winter with their large 
red lips. 
The nursery catalogues will give you a 
great deal of useful information and more 
numerous and elaborate descriptions of 
varieties than it would be possible to give 
here. But the nurseryman, no matter how 
elaborate he may make his catalogue, can¬ 
not do all work for you. You should take 
the trouble to make a plan, drawn more 
or less roughly to scale, and figure out 
accurately what you will need before 
ordering. You will never get satisfactory 
results by first making out your list and 
then trying to get a place to put them 
after they arrive. Another mistake which 
the beginner is very likely to make is to 
want to try “one of each” of everything 
which he can afford to get. The results 
of following this policy will be as disas¬ 
trous in hedge gardening as in flower gar¬ 
dening. While the best effects cannot be 
had with shrubs as can often be had with 
flowers by planting large masses of the 
same variety, nevertheless in a border of 
any size it is usually desirable to use sev¬ 
eral of the same species at least; the 
varieties may be different, and often should 
be, because some blooming sooner than 
the others the flowering season is more 
continuous. But do not be afraid of get¬ 
ting a monotonous effect by ordering three 
or six or a dozen of the same shrub, if the 
grounds are of a fair size. Hedges, of 
course, should be planted as units, all of 
the same thing. If terminals, gateways 
and so forth are wanted of a different 
height, this can usually he managed by 
trimming and training. 
In planning your shrub plantings there 
are three general principles which, before 
all others, should be kept in mind. The 
first is known as the “open center." Do 
not scatter either beds or single specimens 
over the ground. In small places they 
