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overrun the choicer ami more beautiful Ijorder-flower.s Avhen 

 planted amonast them. These coarse subjects would be (|uite 

 at home in copses and woody places, where their blossoms 

 might be seen or gathered in due season, and their vigorous 

 vegetation form a covert welcome to the game-preserver. To 

 these two groups might be added subjects like the winter 

 Heliotrope, the handsome British Willow herb, and many 

 other plants whicli, while attractive in the garden, are apt to 

 spread about so rapidly as to become a nuisance there. 

 Clearly these should only l)e planted in wild and semi-wild 

 places. 



Fifthly, because we may in this way settle also the 

 question of spring flowers, and the spring garden, as well as 

 that of hardy flowers generally. In the way I suggest, many 

 parts of every country garden, and many suburban ones, may 

 l:)e made alive with spring flowers, without interfering at 

 least with the geometrical beds that have been the worthless 

 stock - in - trade of the so - called landscape - gardener for 

 centuries. The Idue stars of the Apenuine Anemone will Ije 

 seen to greater advantage " wild," in shady or half-shady bare 

 places, under trees, than in any conceivable formal arrange- 

 ment, and it is but one of hundreds of sweet spring flowers 

 that will succeed perfectly in the way I propose. 



Sixtklij, because there can be few more agreeable phases of 

 communion with nature than naturalising the natives of 

 countries in whicli we are infinitely more interested than in 

 those of which greenhouse or stove plants are native. From 

 the Eoman ruin — home of many flowers, the prairies of the 

 Xew World, the woods and meadows of all the great moun- 

 tains of Europe ; from Greece and Italy and Spain, from the 



