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THE WILD GARDEN. 



rr Nvith this water-garden we combine the wild garden of 

 land plants — herbaceous, trailers, etc. — some of the loveliest 

 effects possible in gardens will be produced. The margins of 

 lakes and streams are happily not upturned by the spade in 

 winter ; and hereabouts, just away from tlie water-line, almost 

 iuiy vigorous and really hardy flower of tlie thousands now in 



our gardens may be grown and will after- 

 wards take care of itself. The Globe- 

 flowers alone would form beauti- 

 ful effects in such positions, and 

 would endure as long as the Grass. 

 Near the various Irises that love 

 the water- side might be planted 

 those that thrive in moist 

 ground, and they are many, 

 including the most Ijeautiful 

 kinds. Among recently in- 

 troduced plants the singular 

 Californian Saxifraga peltata 

 is likely to prove a noble 

 one for the water- side, its 

 natural habitat being beside 

 mountain watercourses, dry 



Day Lily by margin uf water. in thc autumn wlieU it is 



at rest ; both flowers and foliage are effective, and the 

 growth very vigorous v,-]\en in moist ground. It would 

 require a very long list to enumerate all the plants that 

 would grow near the margins of Avater, and apart from 

 the aquatics proper ; but enough has been said to prove that, 

 given a strip of ground beside a stream or lake, a garden of 



