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THE WILD GARDEN, 



tliatclied roofs, etc., on the Continent, flowering profusely. Tliese facts 



tend to show how many ditfinvnt positions may he adorned hy the irises. 



Common Lupine, Luimms pohjphyllus.— Amidst the tallest and 



handsomest herhaceonsplants,gronp- 

 ed where they may he seen from grass 

 drives or wood walks, or in any 

 position or soil. Excellent for islets 

 (ir rivfr banks, in wliich, or in 

 copses, it spreads freely. There are 

 several varieties, all worthy of culture. 

 Honesty, Lunaria. — This, 

 which approaches the Stocks in the 

 aspect of its fine purplish violet 

 flowers, is quite removed from them 

 Ijy the appearance of its curious 

 peed-vessels. It is one of the most 

 valuable of all plants for naturalisa- 

 tion, and may he said to form a 

 type by itself. It shoAVS itself freely 

 in dryish ground or on chalk Ijanks, 

 and is one of the prettiest objects 

 to be met with in early summer 

 in wood or wild. 



Lily, Lilium. — There are many 

 liardy lilies that may be naturalised. 

 The situations tliat these grow in, 

 from the high meadows of Northern 

 Italy, dotted with the orange lily, 

 tu the woody gorges of the Sierras 

 in California, rich with tall and 

 fragrant kinds, are such as make 

 tlu'ir culture in copses, woods, rough 

 grassy places, etc., a certainty. In 

 woods where there is a rich deposit 

 of vegetable matter tbe great 

 American Lilium superbun:, and 

 no donl>t some of the recently- 

 discovered Californian lilies, will do well. The European lilies, 

 dotted in the grass in the rough unmown glades, W(Uild not grow 

 nearly so large as they do in the rich borders of our cottage gardens ; 



