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Edward Gillelt, Southwick, Mass.—Aquatic Plants 
usually found growing this way: 
Ledum latifolium. 
Andromeda polifolia, 1 ft. 
Cassandra calyculata, 1 ft. 
Gaylussacia resinosa, 2 ft. 
Kalmia angustifolia, 1 ft. 
Ledum latifolium, 1 ft. 
Pyrus arbutifolius, 5 ft. 
Vaccinium stramineum, 3 ft. 
Andromeda polifolia, Cassandra calyculata, and 
Azalea viscosa, 4 to 10 ft. 
Cephalanthus occidentalis, 4 ft. 
Ilex verticillata, 5 ft. 
Kalmia glauca, 2 ft. 
Nemopanthes Canadensis, 4 ft. 
Rhodora Canadensis, 2 ft. 
Vaccinium corymbosum, 5 to 10 ft. 
Aquatic Plants 
Plants grown in water 2 to 3 feet below the surface; always below the frost-line. 
BRASENIA peltata (Water Shield). An aquatic growing in 1 to G 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, SI per doz. 
LIMNANTHEMUM lacunosum (Floating Heart). A pretty little aquatic, with 
blotched leaves and white flowers all summer. Plant in water 2 to 5 feet deep. 
10 cts. each, SI i)cr doz. 
NASTURTIUM officinale (Hardy English Water Cress). A well-known hardy perennial 
aquatic, easily grown in any stream. Flowers white. 8 cts. each, 7") cts. per doz. 
NUPHAR advena (Common Yellow Lily). Has large leaves and single yellow flowers 
through the summer. Found in still water, 2 to 5 feet deep. Easily grown and 
exceedingly ornamental and satisfactory. 25 cts.each,S2 per doz.; by express,S1.50. 
NYMPHjEA odorata (Sweet-scented Water 
Lily). This plant is too generally known 
to need description. Its large, fragrant 
white flowers are well w'orth the trouble 
required in growing them. Where no pond 
or slow-flowing stream is near at hand 
the ])lant may be grown in a large tub 
partly filled with rich mud or clay, the 
roots planted in this and the tub filled 
with water. For planting in a lake, a 
stone can be tied to the root and thrown 
to the place where they are to be grown, 
or pressed into the mud with a stick. 
Plant in water 2 to 5 feet, or below frost. 
They are very easy to establish. 25 cts. 
each. 81.50 per doz. 
PELTANDRA Virginica (Water Arum). Leaves 
on long petioles, sometimes like a calla 
in outline, with greenish flowers, growing 
a foot or more out of the water. Plant 
in water, a foot deep in mud. 15 cts. 
each, §1.25 per doz. 
PONTEDERIA cordata (Pickerel Weed). 
Flowers blue; grows in water about a 
foot deep; quite often in sand, in ponds or 
slow streams. Flowers small but numer¬ 
ous, raised 8 to 12 inches above the 
water. Common throughout New Eng¬ 
land. For massing, plant 18 inches apart. 
25 cts. each, §2 per doz.; by express, 
$1.50 per doz. 
Hardy Orchids 
The Orchids of New England,for the most 
])art, are shade-loving plants, and delight in a 
soil well drained and largely composed of 
leaf-mold. While the common border plants 
are not particular as to soil, they like the_open 
Sarracenia Druinmondii (see page 55) 
