THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



If a field quite "run out," as the farmer 

 expresses it, is to be tilled, some of the sod, 

 which is often full of lovely wild flowers, may 

 be taken up and brought to the wild garden. 

 Thus transplanted, the blossom will not even 

 droop for a day. 



If fences are to be straightened and re- 

 built, the beautiful bushes and vines which 

 have adorned their dilapidation may also be 

 transplanted into the wild garden. 



The bogs, wet meadows and swamps, 

 whether your own or your neighbor's, are 

 your nurseries, and permission for such trans- 

 planting will seldom be refused. But such 

 constant reclamation is now being carried 

 on all over the country that, if you see any 

 plant or shrub you want growing in swamp 

 or bog, you should lose no time in securing it 

 for your natural garden; for bog and swamp 

 may soon be drained and reclaimed and used 

 for onion meadow or corn field, when its day 

 as a nursery for wild flowers will be gone. 



In the practice of wild gardening, the win- 

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