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Wall and water gardens (1902)

Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932 · [London] "Country life" · leaf 252

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iage, and spikes of bloomthat are conspicuous for the class of plant; it is re-lated to the Chair-Rush {Scirpus). It grows in veryshallow water and in watery mud. The CyperusSedge {Carex pseudo-Cyperus) is also handsome formuch the same use. Of the floating river flowers the earliest to bloomis the… … oq oq^ - --: :?; fi; o 2 ^ >. -. o O -t; 3g O 00 o o -r; k^ ^ cq SMALL PONDS AND POOLS 113 on the actual pond edge. The two look very welltogether, and all the better with a good stretch of thedark Chair-Rush behind them. One point of botani-cal interest in the Water Buttercup is its two…

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