104 THE WILD GARDEN. 



naturalised in the warm sandy soil were the Sun Koses, 

 which are shown in the foreground of the ]ilate. Here and 

 there among the Heaths, creeping aliout in a perfectly 

 natural-looking fashion, too, was the (Jentian l)lue Cromwell 

 (Lithospermum ])rostratum), witli other hardy plants suited 

 to the situation. Among these naturalised groups were tlie 

 large Evening Primroses and Alstrcemeria anrea, the whole 

 being well relieved by bold bushes of flowering shrubs, so 

 tastefully grouped and arranged as not to show a trace of 

 formality. Such plants as these are not set out singly and 

 without preparation, but carefully planted in beds of such 

 naturally irregular outline, that when the plants l)econie 

 established they seem native children of the soil, as much as 

 the Bracken and Heath around. It is remarkable how all 

 this is done without in the least detracting from tlie most 

 perfect order and keeping. Closely-shaven glades and wi(U^ 

 Grass belts wind about among such objects, while all trees 

 that require special care and attention show l)y their health and 

 size that they find all they require in this beautiful gardeu. 

 It is more free from needless or offensive geometrical-twirling, 

 barren expanse of gravelled surface, and all kinds of puerilities 

 — old-fashioned and new-fangled — than nny garden I liave 

 seen for years. 



The following, from a correspondent, shows wliat may lie 

 done with few advantages as to space or situation : — 



We have a ilell with a small stream of sjiiini,^ water nuniiiiL; 

 tlirough it. When I first came to Brockhurst I found this stream 

 carried underground by a tile culvert, and the valley sides covered 

 with Rhododendrons, the soil between carefully raked and kept free 

 from weeds, so that it was only during springtime that flowers relieved 

 the sombre eff'ect of this primness. After five years this has all been 



