EXPLANAT0E7. 



thrive iiuicli licLter in rough iiiid AviM places than ever tliey 

 (lid in the old-fashioned borcU'r. Even eoniparatively small 

 ones, like the ivy-leaved Cyclamen, a heautii'ul ])lant that we 

 rarely find in perfection in gardens, I have seen perfectly 

 naturalised and spread all ovi-r the mossy surface of a thin 

 wood. 



Secondly, l)e(;ause they will look infinitely better than ever 

 they did in gardens, in consequence 

 of fine-leaved plant, fern, 

 and climbei", urass 

 and trailing shrub, 

 relieving each other 

 in ways innumerable 

 and delightful. Any 

 one of a thousand 

 combinations will 

 prove as far superior 

 to any aspect of the 

 old mixed border, or 

 the ordinary type of 

 modern tloAver-gar- 



^ A "mixed liorder wilh tile edging, the way in which the 



den as is a lovelv beautiful hardy flowers of the world have been grown in 



•^ gardens liitherto, when grown at all. {S/cetc/ieii in a 



mountain valley to /nrgri:an{cn, 1878.) 

 a piece of the " black country." 



Tliirdly, because, arranged as I propose, no disagreeable 

 elfects result from decay. The raggedness of the old mixed 

 border after the first flush of spring and early summer bloom 

 had passed was intolerable, bundles of decayed stems tied to 

 sticks, making the place look like the parade-ground of a 

 number of crossing - sweepers. A\'hen Lilies are sparsely 



