The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . nd we think of the oldhomestead, the old fashioned flowers,the fruit, the trees, the landscape andone thing more prominent than anyother on the landscape, most pictur-esque and which no artist omits on-the canvas, is the widening stream—that piece of water. Yes, in the firstgarden we read of rivers of water andsomething of the plants and trees-planted by the side and down throughthe ages to this twentieth centurythose fortunate enough to possess arlarge share of the worlds goods havealso had their beautiful gardens, andwhere there were ga
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . nd we think of the oldhomestead, the old fashioned flowers,the fruit, the trees, the landscape andone thing more prominent than anyother on the landscape, most pictur-esque and which no artist omits on-the canvas, is the widening stream—that piece of water. Yes, in the firstgarden we read of rivers of water andsomething of the plants and trees-planted by the side and down throughthe ages to this twentieth centurythose fortunate enough to possess arlarge share of the worlds goods havealso had their beautiful gardens, andwhere there were gardens there wererivers and streams and water courses^and with these naturally were aquaticplants. See how nature has dis-tributed aquatic plants on this greatcontinent of ours. You take your ma-chine and tour through the great mid-Atlantic and other states; you pass bynumerous lakes and ponds and other •sluggish streams. On the surface ofsome you espy the lily pads and theopening lilies of purity kissed by the-dews of the Heavens as they float In-. DELIVERY CAR OF A. L. GLASER, DUBUQUE, lA. igi2. The American Florist. 1067 crystal waters. Here you ilnd onegem, there another, each emitting arich, delicate perfume, inviting, entic-ing, entrapping a host of winged gayInsects. We have ten or a dozen spe-cies and varieties of water lilies In theUnited States and of aquatic plantsthere Is no end, but allow me to men-tion the cat tails, Typha latlfolla, to-gether with the sedges, the hibiscuswith its mammoth flowers, the gor-geous cardinal flower and Its bluecompanion, the many arrow-heads, thecalthas, the llthrum, esclepia, thallc-trum. Iris, etc., far too many to men-tion, but everywhere you turn themoist places are resplendent with ver-dure and beauty. Turn to Europe, andthere you will find her ponds, poolsand lakes no less beautiful, yetadorned with other gems mostly white,reflecting their pure flowers on theplacid surface as in a mirror. We journey and we visit the coollakes
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