THE WILD GARDEN 



flowers that make a good appearance in the field, 

 and why not in the garden? Suggesting the 

 yarrow in its foHage and the daisy in its flower, 

 is the camomile, another familiar of the country, 

 but less worth while as a cultivated plant, be- 

 cause of its low growth and raggedness. 



There is practically no end to the resources 

 of the wild garden. The whole flora of a coun- 

 ty, excepting the swamp flowers, can be repre- 

 sented in an estate that is large enough and that 

 has some variety of surface — rocks, mold, sand 

 and shade. We can begin our season in that 

 garden early, with the violet, liverwort, star- 

 flower, blood-root, rue-anemone, May-apple, the 

 trilliums, Solomon's-seal, spice-bush, the rhodora, 

 the wild pink, the showy orchis, the polygala and 

 wild geranium, and carry color and fragrance 

 through the months till the snows begin to 

 sprinkle over the last gentians, Joe-Pye-weeds, 

 everlastings, goldenrods and asters. 



The place for a wild garden is at a remove 

 from the house, if the space available for formal 

 gardening is small. It is better to separate the 

 cultivated from the wild, not that the former 

 learn any bad habits from the other, but that 



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