BOG AND AQUATIC PLANTS 
Bogs and lakes are very essential elements in landscape work. The wet, springy 
banks and muddy pool below can be made the choicest spots under the magic touch 
of the progressive gardener of today. These unsightly places are made to produce a 
great wealth of both flowers and foliage; the muddy pool is transformed into the lake 
for aquatics, and the springy bank is set to Sarracenias, Dionaeas, etc., and made into 
a botanist’s paradise, for here these bog plants are at home. 
ACORUS Calamus (Sweet Flag). Grows in low. wet places. Leaves light green, i to 
3 feet long. The rootstock has an aromatic flavor, well known to people of New 
England. Desirable for shallow lakes or wet places, io cts. 
A. Calamus variegatus (Variegated Sweet Flag). Leaves beautifully striped with 
white. Easily grown in any garden soil. 20 cts. 
BRASENIA peltata (Water Shield). An aquatic growing in 1 to 6 feet of water. 
Leaves entire, floating, 1 to 3 inches broad, greenish or purplish. Flowers small, 
dull purple, appearing on the water’s surface. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
CALLA palustris (Water Arum, .or American Calla). A bog plant, resembling the 
cultivated Calla in both leaf and flower, only smaller. Six inches high. Plant 
near water or mulch with sphagnum moss and keep wet. 10c. each, $1 per doz. 
CALTHA palustris (Marsh Marigold). Six to 15 inches high. Flowers bright yellow 
in spring. A very showy plant in wet places, both in sun and shade. It can also 
be planted in brooks, water 2 to 4 inches deep ; for massing plant one foot apart. 
It can also be grown in pots for forcing. 10 cts. each, $ r - 2 5 per doz., $6 per 100. 
DROSERA filiformis (Thread-leaved Sundew). A little bog plant with long, thread¬ 
like leaves, covered with short red-colored hairs. Flowers rose-purple, along the 
upper part of the stem. 4 to 8 inches high. Wet, sandy soils. 10c. ea., $1 per doz. 
