OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



warm trellis its two shoots turned one to 

 the right, and the other to the left, and 

 grew all the way around the trellis, and so 

 reached the cool wall behind, much to its 

 comfort and satisfaction. These are, no 

 doubt, matters which the naturalist of the 

 future will work upon. For my part, I 

 trust my plants do not feel everything, 

 for I should find the necessary clippings 

 and pullings-up quite impossible to accom- 

 plish if I thought they did ! 



The lily bed with which this chapter began 

 is my most brilliant effort in the matter of 

 wild gardening, but it is by no means 

 the only one. My other plantings of this 

 kind are less conspicuous, but no less dear 

 to my heart, and, though they are still in 

 the experimental stage, I have faith to 

 believe that in time they will also fulfil my 

 dreams in their behalf. In certain woodsy 

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