Edward Gillett, SouthwicK, Massachusetts 
BOG AND AQUATIC PLANTS 
27 
JUNCUS ef^usus (Hojj Rush). Stem rouml, dark green. ’ lo 4 feet Itigh. bearing tiear 
the top a cluster of small, inconspicuous Bowers. 10 rts. 
HMNANTHEMUM lacunosum (Floating Heart). A pretty little aquatic, with >mall 
blotched leaves and pure white Bowers. 10 cts. each, 5 i per doz. 
MENYANTHES trifoliata (Huck-Hean). A pretty little bog plant found growing in 
moss. Has large pure white flowers, covered on the upper surface with frost-like 
beards. Fine for the bog garden. 10 cts. each, 5 * pt^r doz. 
NASTURTIUM officinale (Hardy English Water Cress). A well-known hardy perennial 
aquatic, easily grown in any stream. Flowers white. 8 cts. each, 75 cts. per doz. 
NESi^^A verticillata. A pretty little water shrub, found along the margin of lakes in 
shallow water or wet ground, with clusters of small rose-purple Bowers. Forms large 
clumps. 25 cts. each, ^1.50 per doz. 
NUPHAR advena (Common Yellow Eilv). Has large leaves and single yellow Bowers. 
25 cts. each, $2 per doz. 
NYMPH.EA (Water Lily) — 
N. odorata (Sweet-Scented Water Lily). I'his plant is too generally known to need 
description. Its large, fragrant white Bowers are well worth the trouble required in 
growing them. Where no pond or slow-flowing stream is near at hand, the plant 
may be grown in a large tub partly filled wdth rich mud or clay, the roots planted in 
this and the tub filled with water, 25 cts. each, $1.50 per doz. 
PELTANDRA Virginica (Water Arum). Leaves on long petioles, something like a calla 
in outline, with greenish flowers, growing a foot or more out of the water. 15 cts, 
each, $1 per doz. 
PONTEDERIA cordata (Pickerel Weed). Flowers blue. 20 cts. each ; by express, 
$i .50 per doz. 
SARRACENIA purpurea (Pitcher Plant). This plant usually sends up a single flower- 
stalk 6 to 18 inches high, bearing a single deep purple flower an inch or more broad. 
Leaves pitcher-shaped, curved, ascending. 2 to (> inches in length. I he Sarracenias 
are all fine bog plants. 15 cts. each. 
$i per doz. 
S. flava (Trumpet Leaf). Flowers anil 
leaves yellow, the former 4 to 5 inches 
wide, leaves 2 feet long. 15 cts. each. 
51.50 per doz. 
S. Drummondii. Leaves 2 feet long, 
beautifully variegated; flowers 3 inches 
wide. 20 cts. each. 52 per do/. 
S. Psittacina (Parrot - Heaked Pitcher 
Plant). Quite small and rare. 20 cts, 
each. 52 per doz. 
S. rubra ( Red - I'lowereil 'Lrumpei - Leaf). 
Pitchers red-veined ; flowers reddish 
purple. 15 cts. each, 5i.50 per doz. 
S variolaris. A smaller species from 
(jeorgia, with taller and more slender 
leaves. 15 cts. each, 51.50 per doz. 
SCIRPUS atrovirens (Marsh Sedge). One to 3 feet high. I-’me tor moist or wet places. 
1 5 cts. each. 5i per lioz. 
SYMPLOCARPUS feetidus. I'his is one of the earliest of tlie spring flowers. The 
covering for the yellow flowers is dull purple, showing above ground before the frost is 
gone. The large green leaves appear later. 20 cts. each. 5 r .50 doz. 
TYPHA latifolia (Cat-tail). A plant found in wet places, growing 2 to 4 feet high. 
Leaves long, grass-like. Flowers grow in a spike. 15 cts. each, 5 i -50 
VERATRUM viride (White Hellebore). Broad-ribbed, dark green foliage and large 
heads of greenish white flowers. A good plant for the bog. 4 feet. 25 cts. 
Sarracenia purpurea. 
Shrubs Desirable for a Wet Place 
Andromeda polifolia, i ft. 
Azalea viscosa. 4 to 10 ft. 
Cassandra catyculaia. 1 ft. 
Cephalanthus occidentalis. 4 ft. 
Gaylussacia resinosa. 2 ft. 
Ilex verticillata. s ft. 
Kalmia ancustifolia, 1 ft. 
Kalmia ^lauca. 2 ft. 
Ledum latifolium. 1 ft. 
Nemopanthes Canadensis, 4 ft- 
Pyrus arbutifoHus. > ft. 
Rhodora Canadensis. 2 ft. 
Vaccinium stramineum. { ft. 
Vaccinium corymbosum. t t<> to ft. 
