

Large Japan Sedum (S. spectabile) and Autumn Crucuses in the Wild Garden. 



CHAPTER Xll. 



SOME RESULTS. 



In addition to Longieat, and other cases previously men- 

 tioned, a few of the results obtained, where the system 

 was tried, and so far as known to nie, may not be without 

 interest. How much a wild garden intelligently and taste- 

 fully carried out may effect for a country seat is fairly 

 well shown in a garden in Oxfordshire. Here is one of 

 the earliest, and probably one of the largest wild gardens 

 existing, and which, visiting it on the 27th May, I found 

 full of novel charms. No old-fashioned garden yields its 

 beauty so early in the year, or over a more prolonged season, 

 than the wild garden, as there is abundant evidence here ; 

 but our impressions shall be those of the day only. It 

 may serve to throw light on the possibilities of garden 



