6 Isaac Langley Williams . Exeter, New Hampshire 
Hardy Native Aquatic and Bog-Plants 
ACORUS calamus. Sweetflag. 2 to 3 ft. Desirable for bog-gardens. 
ASCLEPIAS incarnata. Swamp Milkweed. 3 ft. Beautiful reddish flower: for 
the bog-garden or brookside. July. 
CALLA<palustris. Wild Calla. 6 in. This white Calla blossoms in May in our 
shady bogs. 
CALTHA palustris. Marsh Marigold. 6 to 12 in. April. 
CHELONE glabra. White Turtlehead. 2 to 3 ft. White, snapdragon-like 
flowers in August in either sun or shade in moist bogs or along brooksides. 
IRIS prismatica. Cubeseed Iris. 1 to 1% ft. Blue flowers on grass-like foliage 
in damp meadows. June. 
versicolor. Blueflag Iris. 1 to 2 ft. The native Blueflag needed in every bog 
or brookside garden. June. 
LYTHRUM salicaria. Purple Loosestrife. Grows 2 to 4 feet tall, with brilliant 
purple spikes of flowers, along our brooks and ponds. July. 
MIMULUS ringens. Monkeyflower. 1 to 2 ft. A bog-plant that has blue 
monkey-like flowers in July. 
NUPHAR advena. Spatterdock or Cowlily. Yellow Cowlily that -grows in 
ponds and quiet coves. 
NYMPHAEA odorata. White Waterlily. Our best Waterlily. Its fragrance and 
beauty cannut be adequately described. All summer. 
PELTANDRA virginica. Virginia Arrow-arum. This sphagnum bog-plant has 
bright green leaves 4 to 12 inches long. 
PONTEDERIA cordata. Pickerelweed. 2 to 3 ft. The blue flower-spikes ap- 
pear in July. Plant grows in shallow water. 
SAGITTARIA latifolia. Arrowhead. Grows in shallow water and has broad, 
arrow-shaped leaves. The white flowers appear in July on 2-foot stems. 
SARRACENIA purpurea. Pitcherplant of New England. ‘Pitchers” are filled 
with water which contains drowned insects. July. 
SPATHYEMA foetida. Skunk Cabbage. The leaves of this plant are 1 to 8 
feet long and often 1 foot wide. Its peculiar flowers come in early spring 
before the leaves open. 
THALICTRUM polygamum. Tall Meadowrue. 4 ft. Grows in either sun’ or 
shade and has graceful, showy white flowers in July and August. 
TYPHA angustifolia. Narrowleaf Cattail. 4 to 6 ft. A narrow-leaved form 
of the Cattail that grows in salt marshes, occurring rather rarely inland. 
75c each, $2.00 per 3, $7.00 per dozen. 
latifolia. Common Cattail. 4 to 6 ft. An interesting and different bog-plant. 
VERATRUM viride. American False Hellebore. 2 to 4 ft. Its broad, bright 
green leaves are practically the first to appear in the spring along our 
brooks and runs. 
Hardy Native Lilies and Bulbous Plants 
ARISAEMA triphyllum. Jack-in-the-Pulpit. 1 to 3 ft. Jack readily makes 
himself at home in the wild gardens in moist shade. 
CONVALLARIA majalis, Lily-of-the-Valley. 4 to 8 in. Fragrant white flow- 
ers in May. A good ground-cover for a shady place. Sods. 
DICENTRA canadensis. Squirrelcorn. 6 to 12 in. An excellent rock-garden 
plant with white, heart-shaped flowers. Graceful, deeply cut foliage. 
April, May. Shade i. 
cucullaria. Dutchman’s-Breeches. 6-12 in. Similar to the Squirrel-corn except 
_ that the flowers remind one of a Dutchman’s breeches. April, May. Shade. 
eximia. Fringed Bleedingheart. 1 to 2 ft. Graceful, fern-like foliage and 
pink flowers all summer. Needs partial shade. 60c each, $1.50 per 3 
$5.00 per dozen. 
PRICES (except as otherwise noted) are 3 of the same variet i 
for $1.00, $3.50 per dozen, $25.00 per 100. Tea alla 
