. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. HARDY FERNS 117 trich Fern). Burns in full ; OSMUNDA CINNAMOMEA (C
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. HARDY FERNS 117 trich Fern). Burns in full ; OSMUNDA CINNAMOMEA (Cinnamon Fern). Moist, rich. Claytoniana (In- terrupted Fern). Move while dor- mant. REGALis. Peaty; branching; edges of brooks. POLYPODIUM VuY,GARE (Common poly- pody.) Can be planted up the ledges of gorges. WATER SIDE PLANTS The selection of plants suitable for the water and water side is a large one, chief among the first named being, of course, the true Water Lilies or Nymphaas, while the , Rice Plant, or Ziza- nia, the Flowering Rush or Butbmus, also various of the Reed Maces or Typhas can be used with success. Among the water side pleints (frequently spoken of as bog plants) are the Globe flowers, (TrolUus), the stately scarlet Lobelia in several varieties, a selection of Loosestrifes, particularly the one called Ly- simaoMa clethroides, and the gay Monkey-flowers (Mimulus), in- cluding cardinalis and Lewisi. The beautiful Moccasin Flower, called Gypripedium spectabile, must not be forgotten, the latter, together with other hardy orchids, being suitable for the drier parts of the ground. The Ust, however, could be very greatly Flagstone path through bog-garden' and semi-wild garden. Good use can be made of Gunneras, Spiraeas, Japanese Irises, Knot-grass, Giant Reed and similar plants. 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 n
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