. The book of water gardening; giving in full detail all the practical information necessary to the selection, grouping and successful cultivation of aquatic and other plants required in the making of a water garden and its surroundings, and covering all conditions from that of the amateur with a few plants in tubs to the large estate or park. Water gardens. THE BOOK OF WATER GARDENING Ferula communis is a plant with very finely divided leaves; it grows to a height of from eight to twelve feet. The flowers are yellow, appearing in um- bels of forty to fifty small blossoms. It has beautiful Fer
. The book of water gardening; giving in full detail all the practical information necessary to the selection, grouping and successful cultivation of aquatic and other plants required in the making of a water garden and its surroundings, and covering all conditions from that of the amateur with a few plants in tubs to the large estate or park. Water gardens. THE BOOK OF WATER GARDENING Ferula communis is a plant with very finely divided leaves; it grows to a height of from eight to twelve feet. The flowers are yellow, appearing in um- bels of forty to fifty small blossoms. It has beautiful Fern like foliage and thrives well in ordinary soil, or at the water's edge. It is easily raised from seed. Funkia subcordata also thrives well in moist soil near the margin of the pond. The leaves are from six to nine inches long, broadly cordate-ovate. The flowers are pure white, from four to six inches in length, and from three to five inches broad, bell shaped; borne in spikes carrying from nine to fifteen flowers, the spike one and one-half to two feet high. They bloom in July and DIGITALIS PURPUREA The Foxglove. A favorite plant for the hardy border Funkia Fortunei bears pale lilac flowers and grows to a height of from eighteen inches to two feet. It is propagated by division of the crowns in Spring. There is a fine variegated one, Funkia ovata marginata, the leaves of which have a broad white margin. The flowers are bluish lilac. Gunnera manicata has gigantic leaves from five to ten feet across, on long prickly petioles. The leaves are orbicular, lobed and crenate; the flowers are green on a dense spike three to four feet tall. [ISO]. 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 Bisset, Peter, 1869-. New York : A. T. De La Mare printing and Pub. Co. , ltd.
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