. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. no exotic flower could surpass. A suitable companionfor this Caltha is the very large and showy RanunculusLingua, which grows in rich ground to a height of 3 ft. or roseum superbum, a beautifully coloured varietyof the common purple Loose-strife, and Epilobium hirsutnm,are two large and handsome plants for the water-side. When to the above, and many others, are added the variousnoble Ferns of America and Europe that thrive by the water-side (the Osmundas, for example), a beautiful garden is theresult.
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. no exotic flower could surpass. A suitable companionfor this Caltha is the very large and showy RanunculusLingua, which grows in rich ground to a height of 3 ft. or roseum superbum, a beautifully coloured varietyof the common purple Loose-strife, and Epilobium hirsutnm,are two large and handsome plants for the water-side. When to the above, and many others, are added the variousnoble Ferns of America and Europe that thrive by the water-side (the Osmundas, for example), a beautiful garden is theresult. If with this water-garden we combine the wild gardenof land—herbaceous plants, trailers, &c.—some of the loveliesteffects possible in gardens will be produced. The margins oflakes and streams are happily not upturned by the spade iawinter; and hereabouts, just away from the water-line, almostany vigorous and really hardy flower of the thousands now inour gardens may be grown and will afterwards take care ofitself. The Globe-flowers alone would form beautiful effects. The Yellow Water Lily. in such positions, and would endure as long as the the various Irises that love the water-side might beplanted—those that thrive in moist ground—and theyare many,including the most beautiful kinds. Among recently-intro-duced plants we think the singular Californian Saxifragapeltata is likely to prove a noble one for the water-side, itsnatural habitat being beside mountain water-courses, dry inthe autumn when it is at rest; both flowers and foliage areeffective, and the growth very vigorous when in moist would require a very long list to enumerate all the plantsthat would grow near the margins of water, and, apart from
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