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part of the season, which can easily be avoided 
and a blaze of colour kept up from March to 
November by introducing the various beauti- 
ful ornaments from our woods, fields, and 
swamps, with which Nature has so profusely 
decorated them. Is it because they are 
indigenous that we should reject them? 
Ought we not rather to cultivate and improve 
them? What can be more beautiful than 
our Asclepias, Asters, Hibiscus, and Phlox, 
Lobelias, Orchis, Rudbeckias, and Liatris, 
our charming Limadorum and fragrant 
Arethusa?’’ In September he says: ‘‘This 
will be a very good time to cull from the 
fields, swamps, and woods some of the favour- 
ites of the Most HIGH, which he has decor- 
ated with such a profusion of lustre and 
beauty that ‘Solomon in all his glory’ was not 
equal to.” 
Yet to-day some people think themselves 
deceived, if they have been misled by un- 
familiar names in a catalogue, and get what 
turn out to be ‘“‘only wild flowers.” In 
Elliott’s catalogue there is a little note on this, 
