In My Vicarage Garden 



in those patches vegetation will regain its full power 

 many years before the unprotected patches, and the 

 value of protection will be proved for generations. 

 To bring this matter into practical gardening. 

 It is now perhaps forty years or more since the 

 discovery was made that the best, perhaps the 

 only sure way, of growing Lilium auratum was to 

 grow it among bushes, especially rhododendrons, 

 and the same thing is now found to be the best 

 way of growing bamboos, which rejoice in shaded 

 roots with a power of bringing their long shoots 

 into light and sunshine. The same rule, also, is 

 found to hold good with many tender shrubs ; 

 nearly all the Chilian shrubs, and many others, 

 are found to grow easily on a north wall, i.e. a 

 wall facing north, and will perish on a south 

 wall ; I mean especially such plants as Lapageria, 

 Tricuspidaria, Solatium jasminoides, Ficus repens, 

 Stauntonia, Mitraria, and many others. And in 

 all the best gardens the value of shade and pro- 

 tection is now fully recognised. At Kew there 

 are many very attractive beds composed of one 

 shrub, and with lilies and other plants coming up 

 in their midst. Mr Wilson's celebrated garden at 

 Wisley owes, I think, the greater part of its suc- 

 cess to the abundance of shade which he is able 

 to get in his wood. In Miss Jekyll's equally 

 celebrated garden at Munstead the most interest- 

 ing parts are those in which she so cleverly 

 cultivates her plants in a thin wood. It has come 

 to be recognised that a garden without trees and 



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