A beautiful accident. — A colony of Myrrbis odorata, establisbed in shrubbery, with 

 white Harebells here and there. (See p. 60.) 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE COMMON SHRUBBERY, WOODS AND WOODLAND DRIVES. 



It must not 1)6 tliouglit that the wild garden can only be 

 formed in places where there is some extent of rough pleasure- 

 ground. Excellent results may Ije obtained from the system 

 in comparatively small gardens, on the fringes of shrubberies 

 and marginal plantations, open spaces l)etween shrubs, the 

 surface of Ijeds of Rhododendrons, where we may have plant- 

 beauty instead of garden -graveyards. I call garden -grave- 

 yards the dug shrubbery borders which one sees in nearly all 

 gardens, public or private. Every shrubbery and plantation 

 surface that is so needlessly and relentlessly dug over by the 

 gardener every winter, may be embellished in the way I 

 propose, as well as wild places. The custom of digging 

 shrubbery borders prevails now in every garden, and there is 



