Group of Globe flowers (Trollius) in marshy place ; type of the nobler 

 Northern flowers little cultivated in gardens. 



CHAPTER IV. 



EXAMPLE FROM THE GLOBE FLOWER ORDER. 



Let us next see what may 1)e done with the Buttercup 

 order of pLmts. It embraces many tilings widely diverse 

 in aspect from these liuniished ornaments of northern 

 meadows and muuiitains. The first thing I should take 

 from it to embellish the wild wood is the sweet-scented 

 Virgin's Bower (Clematis flammula), a native of the south 

 of Europe, but as hardy and free in all parts of Britain 

 as the common Hawthorn. And as the Hawthorn sweetens 

 the breath of early summer, so will this add fragrance 

 to the autumnal months. It is never to be seen half so 

 beautiful as when crawHng over some tree or decayed stump ; 

 and if its profuse masses of white liloom do not attract, its 

 fragrance is sure to do so. An open glade in a wood, or open 

 spaces on banks near a wood or shrubbery, would be charming 

 for it, while in the garden or pleasure-ground it may be used 



