. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. 250 PONDS AND LAKES. once hail them, an}' decorative piece of water without them will seem almost uninterestiag, no matter what other water- plants ai'e employed. Let me say here, before I forget, that spaces of clear surface among Avater-plants, with undisturbed reflections, are particularly necessary
. Landscape gardening. Notes and suggestions on lawns and lawn planting--laying out and arrangement of country places, large and small parks, cemetery plots, and railway-station lawns--deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs--the hardy border-bedding plants--rockwork, etc. Landscape gardening. 250 PONDS AND LAKES. once hail them, an}' decorative piece of water without them will seem almost uninterestiag, no matter what other water- plants ai'e employed. Let me say here, before I forget, that spaces of clear surface among Avater-plants, with undisturbed reflections, are particularly necessary to secure the best effects. The whole surface of the pond should be no more covered, up with water-lilies than fine rocks should be completely masked Avith climbing vines. To explain to the reader which are the tender and which are the hardy kinds would be a lengthy task, and I must refer him to the nearest nurseryman who grows aquatics. Better not grow many tender plants, would be my advice to the ordinary \ . ' '-.^^^^^^^SIKK^' : amateur lawn-planter. The success of this treat- ment of my stream certainly affords me great pleasure, and I need hardly say I am proud of it. It has, however, done more than that. One or two of my neighbors are, I see, already following my example, with promising i-esults. In the village, also, near by, there is a fountain, and in the basin I have persuaded the authorities to arrange some boxes of lilies and lotuses renewed every year with purchased plants, and in place of a great iron Neptune, jiainted white and surrounded by white. AN ARRANGEMENT OF WATER-LILIES AND 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 Parsons, Samuel, 1844-1923. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons
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