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my borders gay. Perhaps this is because in wild 

 gardening the gardener has necessarily to be simple. 

 He who would plant carefully hybridised things in 

 the grass and expect to see them thrive would be 

 a foolish person ; so type flowers are chosen which 

 cannot revert to any lower stage of existence be- 

 cause they are still as Nature made them, and the 

 result is as though she herself had planted them, 

 exotics though they may be. 



One of our most noxious weeds in the eyes of 

 Sterculus is very useful for grouping with cut 



WHITE WEED IN A GROVE 



flowers. This is the common white weed, or sheep's 

 parsley. Its foliage mingles well with garden 

 blossoms, and its great heads of tiny flowers are 

 very effective later in vases in combination with 

 such large blooms as those of the oriental poppy, 

 the paeony, and pyrethrum. Another flower ex- 

 cellent for the purpose is the bulbous saxifrage, 

 which is plentiful hereabouts, and is nearly as 

 pretty as its diminutive relative the London pride. 

 Other plants which grow wild in the orchard are 

 the water avens, the adder's-tongue fern, the twae- 



