OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



at the right hand, and it is already evi- 

 dent that the lupine, at least, is interested 

 in the place. I have tried for years to 

 make this plant grow in other places, but 

 it has always manifested a singularly un- 

 responsive nature toward me, and do 

 what I would, it showed me plainly that 

 it was bored and discontented with us. 

 In this spot, however, it has all at once 

 waked up and behaves in a very different 

 manner, so I confidently count on a very 

 pretty sight in about three years from 

 now, when the broken boulder is half 

 buried in its delicate spikes of blue. I 

 know full well how it ought to look, and 

 can, if it chooses, for in a large neighbour- 

 ing estate, " The Rocks," where wild garden- 

 ing has been very extensively practised, 

 this plant has been naturalized on a seem- 

 ingly barren ledge, where it flourishes 

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