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Pansies, shows the value of good groups of trees in 

 connection with walls. 



There is many a dismal wall, or court with paving 

 right up to the wall, where the clever placing of some 

 suitable plant in a chink of broken-cornered flag- 

 stone, or empty joint close to the wall-foot, may 

 redeem the dulness and want of interest of such a 

 region of unbroken masonry. The plants most suit- 

 able for such a place are Male Fern and Harts-tongue, 

 Welsh Poppy, and Iris fostidisshna ; all but the Poppy 

 having also the advantage of winter beauty. Just 

 lately in my own home I have had an example of the 

 willingness of a pretty plant to grow in the little space 

 offered by the meeting of two paving-stones, one of 

 which had lost an angle. Here a seed of Mimulus 

 cupreus grew self-sown, and the neat little plant, with 

 its rich, deep orange bloom flowering all the summer, 

 is a joy to see. This would also be a plant for the 

 stone-paved sunless court with others of its family, 

 including the common Musk. 



The picture of a fine stone bridge in the north of 

 England shows how much a good and simple structure 

 gains by the invasion of Ivy and wild things of even 

 more bushy growth. Here is a beneficent piece of 

 human work in a naturally beautiful landscape of 

 wood and water. Stream and forest accept the man- 

 wrought bridge and offer it welcome and brother- 

 hood by adorning it with the friendly growths, whose 

 masses are so admirably disposed, that the scene 



