i 4 FLOWER GARDENING 



A bog garden is a wet one, more or less faith- 

 fully reproducing boggy conditions. It is just the 

 place for segregating some of the orchids, ferns 

 and other native plants that otherwise are liable 

 to perish in cultivation, or at best grow only half- 

 heartedly. It may be also a peat garden, or just 

 the moister section of one the remainder to be 

 higher land for rhododendrons, heather, lilies and 

 other peat-loving plants. 



Of what may be called sentimental gardens there 

 are doubtless more kinds than will ever be num- 

 bered, because any one is likely to extend the list 

 through purely personal promptings of the heart. 

 The best for general recommendation is the garden 

 of friendship. All of the plants in it, of course, 

 are from friends or from seed sent by them; and 

 it is astonishing to find how many are only too 

 glad to contribute. Long-lived, hardy plants ought 

 to be given the preference. 



A garden of association might mean this, too; 

 but a wise differentiation is a gathering together of 

 plants personally and through friends that 

 come from places of historical and literary interest. 

 Shakspere, Bible and Virgil gardens are among 

 the possible specializations, though all offer ob- 

 stacles to completeness that few would find sur- 

 mountable. Enough for most will be to visualize 

 "Daffodils that come before the swallow dares" 

 or some of the other easy references. 



The name garden has occasional possibilities that 

 have not begun to be recognized. Rose and Vio- 



