102 THE WILD GARDEX. 



there tliroiigh the trees and Grass, and well they look — better 

 here among the Grass and flowers, partially shaded by trees, 

 than in the hardy Fernery, which is so often a failure, and 

 when a success, often " too much of a muchness," so to say. 

 The wild garden of the future will he also tlie true home of 

 all the more important hardy Ferns. The rivals of the Ferns 

 in beauty of foliage, the Ferulas, and various other um- 

 belliferous plants with beautifully cut foliage, have also their 

 homes in the wild garden. The Welsh Poppy thrives, as 

 might be expected, admirably in the grove, its rich yellow 

 cups just shoAving above the meadow. 



In another part of the grounds there is a raised walk 

 quite away from trees, open and dry, with sloping banks on 

 each side. This may be called a sun-walk, and here quite a 

 different type of vegetation is grown ; Scotch Ptoses, Brooms, 

 Sun Eoses, Rock Eoses, etc. It is quite recently formed, and 

 will probably soon accommodate a more numerous and interest- 

 ing flora. Such an open sunny walk, with dry banks near, is 

 a capital position in which to carry out various phases of the 

 wild garden. Peculiarly suitable, however, in such a position 

 is a good illustration of the vegetation of the hot, rocky, and 

 gravelly hill-sides of the Mediterranean region, and this is 

 quite easily represented, for the various leguminous plants 

 and dwarf Pea-flowered shrubs, such as the Spanish Broom, 

 many of the beautiful Eock Eoses (Cistus), the Sun Eoses 

 (Helianthemum), and the Lavenders, will, with a host of com- 

 panions, for the most part thrive quite as well on a sunny 

 sandy bank in England as in Italy or Greece. In the wild 

 garden it is easy to arrange aspects of vegetation having a 

 geographical interest, and a portion of such a sunny bank as 



