THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



in effective planting and there grown without 

 cultivation. The object of the garden was to 

 grow effectively, in their natural conditions, 

 those plants which would live without culti- 

 vation or specially prepared soil. It is a 

 garden where no seeds are sown, no fertilizer 

 used, and where the ground is not tilled. Even 

 wild roses, when transplanted from one part 

 of the place to another, such as the Blanda 

 and others, of which there are forty-three 

 varieties native in Connecticut, receive no 

 fertilizer. In situations where they are much 

 in evidence, the ground over the roots is 

 covered with sods of moss brought from the 

 woods. In this wild garden, roses have thriven 

 for years, though receiving no care. 



Some might call it a garden of weeds, but 

 if the Joe Pye is a weed, so also are the wild 

 violet, the trillium, the bloodroot and the 

 hepatica. Those shrubs and flowers which 

 are needed to produce an effect in mass are 

 planted as closely together as possible, the 

 branches even touching, while, in some other 



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