THE WILD GARDEN 



to a wide variety of growth. If you are deter- 

 mined to have certain exotics from the next town- 

 ship, you can provide for them, but in making 

 them at home you destroy the home of your 

 faithful and domestic flowers. For instance, I 

 kept a skunk-cabbage, for the fun of the thing, 

 and although it refused my blandishments after 

 a little, it went far to convince me that I could 

 have kept it going if I had watered and shaded 

 it more thoughtfully. I think the neighbors re- 

 garded this as unholy, yet I never scattered its 

 leaves over their premises. If, however, I had 

 raised skunk-cabbages, the moistening of the 

 soil would have made the place unfit for my 

 sweet peas, honeysuckles, petunias and zinnias. 



Dandelion, buttercup, goldenrod, mustard, 

 butter-and-eggs, dog's-tooth violet, hawkweed, 

 rattlesnake weed, cinquefoil, evening primrose, 

 mullein, moth-mullein, St. Johnswort, star-grass, 

 meadow-lily, butterfly-weed and oxaUs I have 

 raised in a city yard. The goldenrods were the 

 pride of the place, standing so high as to con- 

 ceal the moderately tall fence against which I 

 planted them, and flaunting heads of bloom as 

 large as a blacksmith's fist. The common white- 

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