A BOOK OF THE COUNTRY 

 AND THE GARDEN 



MARCH 



March 



garden. 



IF I had the making of my garden over 

 again I think it should be only a wild 

 There should be no flower-beds near the 

 house, and all my best plants should be grown in 

 wide borders in the kitchen plots. Close up to 

 the door would come fine turf, and grouped in it 

 there would be heather, gorse, broom, and other 

 native plants and shrubs, with winding natural 

 paths between. Further away I would encourage 

 in a bosky dell grass of a more rampant sort, in 

 which I might naturalise some of the garden plants 

 which are best adapted to this method of treatment. 

 There should be leafy borders, wet ditches, natural 

 rocky elevations, or elevations which would look 

 natural, and each with its carefully planted groups 

 of subjects fitted for their positions, all trying to 

 persuade the observer that they grew in a wild 

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