PLANTS FITTED FOR THE WlT.l) GAEDEX. 



UTass in a tliiu wooel is luvelv. 

 The Golden -rods and Michaelmas 

 Daisies used to overrun the old 

 mixed horder, and were with ir 

 abolished. lUit even the poorest of 

 these seen to£i-ether in a Xew EuQ-land 

 wood in autumn fi mn a picture. So 

 also there are numerous exotic plants 

 of whicli the indi^•idual iiowers may 

 not he so striking, Ijut which, grown 

 in groups and colonies, and seen at 

 some little distance off, afford heauti- 

 ful aspects of vegetation, and cpiite 

 new so far as gardens are concerned. 

 "When I first wrote this book, not 

 one of tliese plants was in cultiva- 

 tion outside botanic gardens. It was 

 even considered by the best friends 

 of hardy flowers a mistake to recom- 

 mend one of them, for they knew 

 that it was the j^redominance of these 

 weedy vigorous subjects that made 

 people give up hardy flowers for the 

 sake of the glare of bedding plants ; 

 therefore, the wild garden in the case 

 of these particular plants opens up ti i 

 us a new world of infinite and stranae 

 beauty. In it every plant vigorous 

 enough not to require the care of the 

 cultivator or a choice place in the 



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The Giant Scabious (o feet high). 

 (Cephalaria procera.) 



