edge, hiding the top of the artificial basin. The curb 
detracts considerably from the natural effect. The sides 
of the basin should slope, as before suggested, and the 
bottom should slant slightly toward the outlet, as it 
might sometimes be necessary to drain the water off 
entirely. If it is made as much as three feet deep, it 
can remain filled with water all winter, by covering it 
with boards and litter, as you would cover a tulip bed. 
Thus the fish can be left in the pool all winter. 
* The setting is nearly as important as the gem it- 
‘Self, since the one can go a long way toward spoiling 
the effect of the other. The little cascades can be trained 
over rockeries rich in ferns, and under little rustic 
bridges draped in clematis and Virginia creeper. We 
will suppose your pool to be about ten feet wide, and 
perhaps three times as_ long. 
Do not try to have deep hays 
and rocky promontories upon 
its shores, for its size will not 
permit of such treatment. It 
is far better to have a smoothly 
graded grassy edge. 
Aquatic, plants are beautiful, 
but let them not be overerowd- 
ed. You must have the native 
white water-lily, of course, as 
it thrives in just such a situa- 
tion; but it is better grown in 
tubs or boxes, as stated before. 
Boxes two feet square and a 
foot deep are large enough to 
work well, and as large as can 
be handled easily. Bullrushes 
and eat-tail flags as well as 
the finer-leaved Calamus or 
Sweet Flag, will be pretty in 
small quantities. 
On the edge of the pool, many 
dainty little bog-plants would 
thrive, if once set out,—such 
specimens as cranberry, pitcher 
_ plant, stone-crop, arethusa, sun- 
dew, and_pack-in-the-pulpit. 
These, also, will grow in your 
rockeries, among the _ ferns, 
where the cascades keep the 
- ground moist. 
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Remember that as much care must be taken about 
arranging plants in the water as upon the land. The 
planting should be done with an eye to effect in the 
mass, and separate colors will look best if grouped by 
themselves. 
Your water plants love sunlight. No water lily 
that I know of will open until the sun strikes it. There- 
fore our pool should have an unobstructed outlook to- 
If the sun becomes too hot, the lilies 
close at noonday; therefore tall trees, standing toward 
the south and west, would keep the flowers in blossom 
for a longer time. 
Do not try to grow too large a plant, and be sure 
that all are surrounded by ample water surface. If the 
pool is surely large enough to give them a proper amount 
of space, you might try some 
of the rich tropical lilies, as 
the Zanzibar purple or the 
Australian blue, besides the 
Egyptian lotus. Water hya: 
cinths are a joy and a delight. 
They may not bloom quite go 
early as the native lily, but 
they keep at their task of blos- 
soming quite as persistently, 
alter they do begin; and the 
dainty lavendar blossoms are 
very nearly as perfect as any- 
thing in nature. They will 
grow pertectly in tubs set into 
shallow water, just sufficiently 
deep to cover the earth. Like 
the tropical lhhes, these plants 
would need to be lifted trom 
the water, during the winter 
season, while the white water 
hly can be left where it stood 
all summer. 
In case you wish to grow 
the Egyptian lotus, you must 
give it plenty of room, and it 
really ought to have the papy- 
rus as its proper companion 
in the water garden. 
CHIROPODY 
COLONNADE 
(Rear of Frank Bros. Boot Shop.) 
MAGNOLIA 
MASS. 
