Show WATER GARDENS IN THE YARD A plea for cometh ng D efferent in the small home inclosure A small outdoor water garden is just the thing to make one s place dit terent from the general run of corn mon place gardens says a writer in the garden magazine why not try some hardy water lilies this year I 1 have two pools in my garden and both are a source of great pleasure to my family and myself as well as the stranger in my gates one is planted with water lilies and the other with lotus in the former we have flowers from early spring to late autumn the colors are white low and pink the lotus blooms for a period of about two months and I 1 bave nothing m my garden to corn pare with its flowers in beauty it you are a lazy gardener try water lilies they require no watering when everything else is drying up and no weeding at any time they multiply so fast with me that most of them have to be dug up every spring and the increase sells at good prices do not grow geraniums cannas coleus and the like when so many beautiful plants can be grown so different from your neighbors |