CHAPTER VI. 



DITCHES AND NARROW SHADY LANES, COPSES, HEDGEROWS, 



AND THICKETS, 



Men usually seek sunny positions for 

 tlieir gardens, so that even 

 v^ those obliged to be con- 

 tented with the north side 

 of the hill would scarcely 

 appreciate some of the 

 above - named positions. 

 What, the gloomy and 

 weedy dyke as a garden ! 

 Yes, there are ditches, dry 

 and wet, in every district, 

 that may readily he made 

 more beautiful than many 

 -' ^* ' " a " modern flower-garden," 



Foliage of Dipsacus, on hedge-bank in spring. -g^^^ ^^,|^^^ ^^.^^^^d grOW iu 



them ? ]\Iany of the beautiful wood and shade-loving j^lants 

 of our own and similar latitudes — things that love not the 

 open sunny hillsides or wide meadows, but take shelter in the 

 stillness of deep woods or in dark valleys, are happy deep 



