WILD GARDENING 



out rocks, and presently I had a strip of 

 rich black mould with all the surface vege- 

 tation buried two feet below, and the top 

 in the most inviting condition bulbs could 

 ask for, and large enough for a couple of 

 hundred of them. 



And now where should I get the lilies to 

 fill it with? Of course the simplest and 

 quickest way would have been to send to 

 the nearest nursery for them, but that 

 would have taken away two-thirds of the 

 pleasure of making the bed, and was not 

 to be thought of in my scheme of garden- 

 ing, and I preferred to let my bed grow 

 slowly and surely as I had done with other 

 plantings, and also to give myself time, as 

 it grew, to learn the " tricks and manners " 

 of these new friends and how to make 

 them happy. 



I must confess, however, that in this, as 

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