fields are thick with the clumps of powdered yellow heads and Wild 

 their delicate scent pervades the air. There is many an orchard Flowers for 

 adjoining the garden, where these might be introduced to sue- the Garden 

 ceed Primroses and Violets in the grass, and where they would 

 seed and increase of themselves. 



Gorse is another of our wild beauties too often neglected, 

 turning as it does our commons and cliffs into sheets of gold. 

 For small gardens of course it is not suitable, but there are 

 many larger ones where, if it is lacking as a wild plant, it and 

 the handsome double form might be introduced as a belt under 

 hedges, or on banks, or at the edge of a drive for the sake of 

 their scent as well as colour. Both are easily grown from 

 cuttings, and the single form from seed as well. 



Periwinkles I have seen charmingly mixed with Gorse, 

 to cover banks in an exposed position. Both the large and the 

 small Periwinkle Vinca major and minor do well in almost any 

 soil, and can be charmingly used in many poor situations, where 

 nothing else will grow and where their trailing growth is invalu- 

 able. The white must not be forgotten, nor the rich plum-red 

 one. Not long ago I found in a friend's garden a charming little 

 picture of moss-grown brick steps wreathed with this latter 

 variety, whose dark green leaves and rich-coloured flowers were 

 set off by the delicate pale green of Fumitory which had estab- 

 lished itself in crevices. These Fumitories, by the way, are very 

 useful woodland flowers, either as carpets to other plants or by 

 themselves. Corydalis bracteata and nobilis with yellow flowers 

 are two of the showiest ; solida with purple flowers I have seen 

 naturalised in a wood, and C. lutea in entire possession of an 

 old wall and seeding itself by the hundred below. 



To our wild wood Anemone could be added the blue 



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