OTHER WATER BORDERS 



waters, and I have never known it to take 

 up a position on the banks beyond the 

 ploughed lands. There is something almost 

 like premeditation in the avoidance of cul- 

 tivated tracts by certain plants of water 

 borders. The clematis, mingling its foliage' 

 secretly with its host, comes down with the 

 stream tangles to the village fences, skips 

 over to corners of little used pasture lands 

 and the plantations that spring up about 

 waste water pools ; but never ventures a 

 footing in the trail of spade or plough ; will 

 not be persuaded to grow in any garden 

 plot. On the other hand, the horehound, 

 the common European species imported 

 with the colonies, hankers after hedgerows 

 and snug little borders. It is more widely 

 distributed than many native species, and 

 may be always found along the ditches in 

 the village corners, where it is not appre- 

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