HARDY FERNS, FLOWERS, SHRUBS, ROSES, ETC. 
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A Wafer Garden of moderate size. 
Bog and Aquatic Plants. 
Bogs and lakes are very essential elements in landscape work. The wet, springy 
bank 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. 10 cts. 
A. Calamus variegatus (Variegated Sweet Flag). Leaves beautifully striped with 
white. Easily grown in any garden soil. 20 cts. 
ALISMA plantago (Water Plantain). Flowers small, white or rose. Plant in shallow 
water. 10 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. 6 inches high. Plant near 
water or mulch with sphagnum moss and keep wet. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
CALTHA palustris (Marsh Marigold). 6 to 15 inches high. Flowers bright yellow. A 
very showy plant. Fine for forcing in pots. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz 
DION/EA muscipula (Venus’ Fly Trap). A most wonderful plant. The flowers are 
small, white and quite pretty, but the wonder is centered in the hairy-edged, 
roundish leaves, which are so sensitive that they quickly close if touched on the 
inside Insects are quite often caught and closely held until they die, when the leaf- 
trap again opens and is ready for more game It is easily grown in wet or very 
damp sand, either in pots or in the open ground, in damp moss or bog. 15 cts. 
each, Si.25 per doz 
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 each, $1 per doz. 
D. rotundifolia (Round-Leaved Sundew). Found in wet sandy places near water 
and in sphagnum moss and in a bog. Leaves roundish, covered with red hairs. 
Flowers white. 10 cts. each, $1 per doz. 
D. longifolia. Similar to the above, only the leaves are narrower. Bogs. 10 cts. 
each, $1 per doz. 
