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to rest early in the year. In spring they require light and sun, which 

 they obtain abundantly under the summer-leafing tree ; they have 

 time to flower and grow under it before the foliage of the tree appears ; 

 then, as the summer heats approach, they are overshadowed, and go 

 to rest ; but the leaves of the tree once fallen, they soon begin to 

 reappear and cover the ground with beauty. 



Some Plants for the Wild Garden. 



The following are the chief families of plants that may be used in 

 the wild garden. Where families are named which are British as well 

 as natives of the Continent of Europe, as in the case of, say, Scilla, 

 the foreign kinds are meant. In considering what may be done in 

 naturalising plants in a given position, it may be well to cast the eye 

 over the families available. Success will depend on how the plants 

 are chosen to go in any one position, but about country seats 

 soils are so much varied that it is not easy to generalise. 



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