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bare, unlovely school grounds whose care might well become one of 

 the children s most important lessons. The bald ugliness of many a 

 village schoolhouse, the hard lines of too many farmers homes and 

 the poorest people s cabins, the barren waste of most country grave 

 yards, might all be mercifully adorned without money and without 

 price if the possibilities of free flora were understood by indifferent, 

 because unintelligent, people. The use of wild trees, shrubs and 

 flowering plants does not necessarily mean a wild garden, but it 

 does mean a far more beautiful, artistic, and economical kind of 

 gardening than any that the masses of our people can afford. 

 It is the garden for the million as well as the millionaire. 



NATIVE PLANTS FOR THE WILD GARDEN 



[See also, LAUREL, RHODODENDRON, CLETHRA, and other desirable 

 native shrubs on pp. 155-162 and 175-187.] 



Plants marked thus (*) are suitable for situations surrounding the water garden. 

 NOTE. The flowering season given is that for the neighbourhood of New York and 

 varies earlier or later to the South or North. 



ADDER S TONGUE. See DOG S TOOTH VIOLET. 



ADAM S NEEDLE, SPANISH BAYONET (Yucca filamentosa). See HER 

 BACEOUS PLANTS. (P. 229.) The best desert evergreen plant 

 and for subtropical effects. 



* AMERICAN SENNA (Cassia Marylandica). Yellow. July, August; 2 

 to 5 feet. Best yellow flower for clumps in moist, open situations 

 and swamps. 



ASTER (Various species). Blue, mauve to white. August till frost; 

 6 inches to 4 feet. Daisy-like flowers of various sizes in loose 

 panicles. Open meadows and woodland borders. These are the 



very best late flowers. * , NEW ENGLAND (Aster Novx-Anglice). 



Violet and purple; 3 to 8 feet. Moist ground. Much improved 



in cultivation. NEW YORK (A. Novi-Belgii). Pale blue; 



2 to 3 feet. Wet, open banks. , SMOOTH (A. lavis). Sky blue. 



September, October; 2 to 4 feet. For dry soils and dry wood 

 lands. Easiest way to naturalise is by scattering seeds. 



