WILD GARDENING 



them with leaves, I do it for her; other- 

 wise they are left to look out for them- 

 selves. If they utterly refuse to be happy 

 and do well, I take them up after a year 

 or two of trial, and plant them some- 

 where else, and by and by I am pretty 

 certain to find a place where they will 

 settle down at last and enjoy life. 



The illustration shows one of many 

 locations which has been prepared for 

 wild flowers, and hundreds of little seed- 

 lings and tiny ferns are vigorously sprout- 

 ing all about the large cleft rock already, 

 but are still too small to show in the 

 photograph. The blue lupine and the red 

 and yellow columbine are the flowers se- 

 lected for this place. The lupine is planted 

 at the left, and around the upper side of 

 the rocky mass, while the columbine has 

 been given the cleft, and the lower edge 

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