WILD GARDENING 



knolls and hollows, I have started colonies 

 of lupine, columbine, anemones, lady's- 

 slippers, trilliums, oxalis, etc. On open 

 ledges I have planted, in the cracks and 

 crannies of the rocks, harebells, edelweiss, 

 euonymus, dicentra, and soapwort. Under 

 a tall ragged spruce, broken by unkind 

 winds and vandal hands, I have planted 

 wild grape and woodbine, which I hope will 

 some day festoon its torn branches and 

 drape them with new beauty. By the 

 brook and pond, cat-tails, gentians, wild 

 violets, and marsh-marigolds are planted. 

 And thus in each location I am trying to 

 naturalize the flowers which somewhere 

 grow wild in such a place. These little 

 plantings are very inconspicuous ; neverthe- 

 less I think a delicate blue harebell clinging 

 to the face of a bleak ledge as beautiful in 

 its own way and place as my flaming lilies 

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