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THE WILD GARDEN. 



slirubbery. The creeping Forget-me-not (Ompalodes verna) 

 is a little plant tliat creeps about in grass or among vegetation, 

 not over a span liigli, or forms a carpet of its own — these 

 points must be considered, and tlien the rest is gardening of 

 the happiest kind only. These Borageworts, richer in Ijlue 

 flowers than even the gentians, are usually poor rusty tilings 

 in exposed sunny borders, and also much in the way when 

 out of flower, whereas in shady lanes, copses, open parts of 

 not too dry or impoverished sliruliberies, in hedgerow-lianks, 

 or ditches, we only notice tliem in their lieautiful bloom. 





Flowers of Cleneva Bugle 

 (Ajiiga genevensis), Dwarf Boragewort. 



