LIST OF ILLUSTEATIONS. 



Colonies of Poet's Narcissus and Broad-leaved Saxifrage, etc. 



F'l'ontispiece 

 Columbine and Geraniums in meadow-grass .... v 



Large flowered Meadow Rue in the Wild Garden, type of plant 



mostly excluded from the Garden ..... 1 



Night effect of large evening Primrose in tlie Wild Garden 



(ffinotliera Lamarkiana) . ... To face j-iwje 4 



A "mixed border" with tile edging, tlie way in whicli the 

 beautiful hardy flowers of tlie world have been grown in 

 gardens hitherto, when gfown at all. (Sketched in a large 

 (jarden, 1878) ........ 5 



Blue flowered Composite plant ; fine foliage and habit ; type 

 of noble plants excluded from Gardens. (Mulgedium 

 Plumieri) ......... 6 



W(Jod Anemone , . . . . . . . . 8 



Caucasian Comfrey in shrubbery ...... S) 



The Cretan Borage (Borago cretica) . . . , . 13 



Flowers of Geneva Bugle (Ajuga genevensis). Dwarf Boragewort 14 



Star of Bethlehem in Grass . . , . . . . 15 



The association of exotic and British wild flowers in tlie Wild 

 Garden. — The Bell-flowered Scilla, naturalised with our 

 own Wood Hyacinth . . . . . . . 17 



The Turk's Cap Lily, naturalised in the grass by wood- walk . 19 



Crocuses in turf, in grove of Summer leafing trees . . . 20 



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



the nobler Northern flowers little cultivated in gardens . 21 



