EXAMPLE FROM HAKDY BULBS AXD TUBERS. 



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•■ lung and pleasant grass " of tlie other parts of the grounds. 

 It ^vunld indeed be worth wliile to leave many parts of the 

 grass nnniown fur the sake of growing many beautiful plants 

 in it. If in some spot where a wide fringe of grass spreads 

 out in the bay of a shrubbery ov plantation, and upon this 

 carpet of rising and unshaven verdure there be dotted, in 

 addition to the few pretty natural 

 flowers that happened to take pos- ^^" ' 

 session of it, the blue Apeunine ^-<;: 

 Anemone, the Snowdrop, the Snow- 4^- -^.^jm 

 flake. Crocuses in variety, Scillas, 

 Grape-Hyacinths, earlier and smaller 

 Xarcissi, the "Wood Anemone, and 

 any other pretty Spring flowers that 

 were suitable to the soil and position, 

 we should have a glimpse of the 

 A'ernal Ijeauty of temperate and 

 northern climes, every flower re- 

 lieved bv grass blades and oreen 



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leaves, the whole devoid of any 

 trace of man, or his exceeding weak- 

 ness for tracing wall-paper pat- 

 terns, where everything should lie 

 varied, indefinite, and changeful, 

 would be evident that the artist had caught the true mean- 

 ing of nature in her disposition of vegetation, without 

 sacrificing one jot of anything of value in the garden, 

 liut, on the contrary, adding the highest beauty to spots 

 devoid of the slightest interest. In connection with this 

 matter I may as well say here that mowing the grass once 



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rhe association of exotic and British 

 wild flowers in the Wild Garden. 

 — The Bell-flowered Scilla, nat- 

 uralised with our own Wood 

 Hyacinth. 



In such a garden it 



