--------------------------------------------------------------------- WATER-LILIES FOR SMALL PONDS --------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME |COLOUR |REQUIRED DEPTH | | OF WATER --------------------------------------------------------------------- _Nymphoea alba_ (hardy) | White |More than 2 ft. " _tuberosa_ (hardy) | White | " " " " _Marliacea rosea_ (hardy) | Pink | " " " " _odorata_, var. _minor_ |White |Less than 1 ft. (hardy) | | " _tetragona_ (hardy) |Yellow | " " " " _Laydekeri_, var. |Pink | " " " _rosea_ (hardy) | | " _Zanzibariensis_ (tender) |White | " " " --------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE:--Any of these forms may be grown in from 1 to 2 ft. of water. --------------------------------------------------------------------- TREE TABLE --------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME |HEIGHT | SPECIAL POINTS --------------------------------------------------------------------- Carolina Poplar |100 ft.|Grows in a dry soil. Fastest growing street | | tree. Its dropping fruit is a nuisance. | | Sheds leaves early. Catalpa |50ft. |Lovely white blossoms in June. Seed pods | | stay on into winter. Quick growing. | | Good lawn tree. English Hawthorn|30ft. |Flowers in June. Red berries. Grows on | | dry soils. Slow grower. Sharp thorns. Linden |90ft. |Easy to grow. Fragrant flowers. Rapid | | grower. European species smaller than | | American. Live Oak |100 ft.|Not hardy in the North. Grows south of | | Virginia. Beautiful evergreen oak. Likes | | moist soil. Locust |80ft. |Fragrant flowers in May and June. Rapid | | grower. Seeds in pods. Thorny bark. Lombardy Poplar |90ft. |Quick grower. Stiff, straight and tall. | | Dignified but melancholy tree. Fine for | | pathway effect. Norway Maple |100 ft.|Tall, well rounded tree. Yellow foliage in | | the fall. Pin Oak |100 ft.|Fastest grower among oaks. You cannot | | grow plants under it.