Show g i I n Your TO U r wn tN I 6 W Ud OF THE TilE WATER POPPY AND OTHERS The vater water poppy nym nym- to be very proper is a Q charming charming charming charm charm- ing plant for tor the pool and will m give givel you an unusual number o of lovel lovely yellow flowers lowers all summer It spreads spread by means of lateral stems which s send nd out roots so that one may easily dIvide divide divide di dI- vide it and be generous with other owners owners- of or lily pools The leaves arc are about aboul two inches in diameter shaped like those of or a water lily and float on the water For a very shallow pool one which will not correctly care for a water waler lil lily the water poppy will solve the problem It is also a good plant to use in the sub garden where a 0 more robustly growing would not find ind enough root room Taking I believe believe be be- believe everything into consideration lieve the water poppy to be the best aquatic one can choose after the water l lilies themselves for lor the average av av- crags crage pool Beware however of ot the arrowhead arrow arrow- head lead a plant which is much advertised advertised adver adver- advertised by dealers in aquatics but which I have found 1 to be far too pushing for the ordinary small pool This plant sends up stems a foot or more in height with pretty pointed leaves and it bears heads of smallish white flowers C each petal bearing a maroon blotch but oh my I how it does spread In In a couple of seasons unless s you ou curb it by planting it in ina ina a can so o that its roots cant can't escape you will have little else in evidence in n your our pool except the arrowhead A plant for the small pool which I highly recommend is called floating heart icart or This 1 also has yellow flowers lowers extremely cheerful looking ones with crimped edges to the petals It is hardy corning com corn com in ing ng up year after year ear in spite of being eing frozen each winter It some some- times Limes becomes too prominent in the small mall pool because it spreads so readily but it is so pretty that you will vill always find fr friends ends who are arc anxious to relieve you of a few roots The water vater hyacinth Is a plant which floats floats- on the water and does not require planting in the soil at athe atthe atthe the he bottom bollom of the pool as the others do lo which I have just mentioned The roots are like masses of black hair and it is among these roots that the goldfish will lay eggs and that the baby jaby goldfish will hide from possible cannibals cannibals' and other enemies liar formations keep the water hyacinth afloat The flowers lowers of the water hyacinth ore ire extremely like the single small purplish blue hyacinths which we grow row from bulbs in the garden Their color olor alone would recommend them for use among amons the lilies and other aquatics for only in n the tender do we find lind that especial tint Beware of putting common bulrushes bul bulrushes bul rushes or cat tails in a small pool pooi ul unless ess like the arrowhead d you ou plant them in a can cnn They are far too strong growers for any apy except the really large pool None of the plants just mentioned are expensive the most of them being obtainable for a afew afew few cents a root And all of them are pretty ond and acceptable but acceptable but dont don't try to crowd every one of them in a pool of modest dimensions QUERIES Esther Salt Lake writes My Iy favorite flower Is the peon peony I have several roots of the common early arl- arl red one that which blooms b by Decoration day dar Now I must move mo them to make way for a new porch oreb They hav haven't nt come up yet et Will it hurt to move mo them Il If Answer If you must move them of course the only thing to do is to get bus busy and p perform the operation as painlessly as possible Really spring is not the time to move peonies peo peo- nies flies You will ill not have flowers this year nor perhaps next As you are going goin to make the move you might as ell divide the roots while you ou are abo about t it it Cut with a strong sharp knife so EO that each new division ision has from three to five live eyes In di digging ging be sure you get gel down beneath beneath be be- neath the roots foots and dont don't break them t I A. A Ti M. M M. M Bountiful writes What are arc these little brown things on the underside of the thc fern leaf I dont don't seem to get et rid of them b by spraying t Answer These Answer These are not insects but the spores of the fern lern or seeds Dont Don't try to remove them |