. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 775.—Chrysospleniunv oppositifolium. 1^ w \ Fig. 776.—Ivy-leaved Fig. 777.—Lesser Dueliweed. Those weeds already described, taken together, form a choice flower- garden of themselves, ay, and contain species of greater beauty and of greater variety than are to be found in some well-dug, well-hoed, and well-raked artificial flower-gardens,—continually interfered with by the gardener's art. Besides these exquisite flowering weeds, there are others, interes
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 775.—Chrysospleniunv oppositifolium. 1^ w \ Fig. 776.—Ivy-leaved Fig. 777.—Lesser Dueliweed. Those weeds already described, taken together, form a choice flower- garden of themselves, ay, and contain species of greater beauty and of greater variety than are to be found in some well-dug, well-hoed, and well-raked artificial flower-gardens,—continually interfered with by the gardener's art. Besides these exquisite flowering weeds, there are others, interesting but unpretending. We have two Duckweeds in our water,—the Lemna trisulca, or Ivyleaved Duckweed (fig. TjS), and the Lemna minor^^ or Lesser Duckweed (fig. ^^^). In the water we have the beautifully foliaged Callitriche (fig. 778), which is always welcome in a trout stream,—forming charming leafy grottoes, in which the trout delight to dwell. F>(in«.,er;. We have introduced into our waters one or two plants of the z 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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