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the outlines of a plantation will be so much more graceful 

 and much work and expense will be saved. Even the 

 herbaceous vegetation, or shrubs used as an undergrowth 

 in woods and thickets, are apt to spread beyond their 

 proper limit. 



Of late years wild gardening has been much recom- 

 mended, and it has been claimed that anybody, by sowing a 

 mixture of flower seeds in the garden, would obtain the 

 most charming results. So far from this being the case, most 

 people who attempt it without any adequate knowledge 

 succeed only in making a desert of weeds ; going to work 

 blindly as they do without knowing the nature or char- 

 acter of the plants introduced in this manner. Woodland 

 scenery is not difficult to produce, but the plants should 

 be comparatively few in number and of a similar nature. 

 Wind-flowers, anemone-flowered rue, purple phlox, oxlips 

 cowslips, and orchids, as well as many species of bulbous 

 plants, are especially adapted for this purpose, and with 

 these the effect will be beautiful. But if a number of 

 plants are used without discrimination, especially those 

 easily propagated by seeds, we only succeed in making the 

 weediest of weedy spots in fact, an anarchy in nature 

 without law and order. Although the scenery as repre- 

 sented in nature is the foundation of the modern park and 

 garden, it must be remembered that there are artificial 

 additions which add greatly to its variety and beauty. 

 The roads and walks are necessary for communications 

 between the different parts, shelters are convenient for 

 protection from rain and sunshine, and bridges are needed 

 to carry us across streams and rivulets.* By contrast also, 



