MARCH 5 



a place in the herbage, and thrive there according 

 as they hold their own with it or no. Refuse seeds 

 are thrown broadcast into it, in the hope that a 

 stray one here or there may find a nook in which 

 it will germinate. There are few which have not 

 been tried in it, though not many have done well. 



It is of no use to dibble plants among the grass 

 and to go away in the confidence that they will live 

 there. I have tried that plan with egregious 

 failure as a result. Good -sized irregular -shaped 

 beds should be dug, and the turves turned over so 

 that the grass shall die. These beds may have an 

 autumnal planting of things likely to repay the labour, 

 and may then be left alone. Apart from the 

 blooms they give they will look bare for the first 

 summer, but the surrounding grass will quickly seed 

 itself upon them, and in the second year the flowers 

 will be really springing from the grass, and the 

 effect will be beautiful. Colonies can be established 

 in this way year after year, until in the course of 

 time <J1 the ground is covered with flowering plants 

 with sparse grass between. Bulbs can be dibbled 

 into these beds as they come to hand. 



There is no reason why many beautiful plants 

 from all quarters of the world should not be 

 naturalised in the wild garden. Among our own 

 British flora we find as a matter of course growing 

 in grassy places such things as foxgloves, primroses, 

 forget-me-nots, asphodels, anemones, columbines, 

 and a thousand others. Is there any valid reason 

 why in association with them we should not grow 

 under similar conditions exotics belonging to the 

 same families ? I trow not. Mr. William Robinson 



