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THE WILD GARDEN. 



as there would be on a border — no necessity for replacing the plants 

 with others ; the tree puts forth its leaves, covering the ground till 

 Autumn, and in early spring we again see our little friend in all the 

 vigour of his glossy leaves and golden buttons. In this way this 

 pretty sjiring fiower may be seen to mucli greater advantage, in a 

 much more pleasing position than in tlie ordinary way of putting it in 

 patches and rings in beds or borders, and with a tithe of the trouble. 

 There are many other subjects of which the same is true. We have 

 only to imagine this done in a A'ariety of cases to see to what a beauti- 

 ful and novel result it would lead. Given the bright blue Apennine Ane- 

 mone under one tree, the spring Snowflake under another, the delicate 

 blue and pencilled Crocuses, and so on, we should have a sjjring garden 

 of the most beautiful kind. Tlie same plan could be carried out imder 

 the branches of a grove as well as of sjiecimen trees. Very attractive 

 mixed plantations might be made by dotting tall subjects like the 

 large Jonquil (Narcissus odorus) among dwarf spreading jjlants like 

 the Anemone, and also by mixing dwarf plants of various colours : 

 diversely cohjured varieties of the same species of Anemone, for 

 example. 



Omitting the various pretty British plants that would thrive in the 

 positions indicated — tliese are not likely to be unknown to the reader 

 interested in such matters — and confining the selection to dwarf, hard}', 

 exotic flowers alone, the following are selected as among the most 

 suitable for such arrangements as that just described, with some little 

 attention as to the season of flowering and the kind of soil recj[uired by 

 some rather uncommon species. A late- flowering kind, for example, 

 shoiild be planted under late -leafing trees, or towards the points of 

 their branches, so that they might not be obscured by the leaves of 

 the tree before peifecting their flowers. 



Crocus Imperati. 



,, bitlorus. 



,, reticulatus. 



,, versicolor, and 

 many others. 

 Cyclamen liedertefolium. 

 Erantliis hyenialis. 

 Erythroniuni Dens-canis. 

 Ficaria grandiHora. 

 Snowdroji, all the kinds. 

 Snowllake, all the kinds. 

 Iris reticulata. 

 Grape Hyacinths. 



Grajje Hyacinths Muscari, 

 any of the numerous k inds. 

 Narcissus, in var. 

 Pusehkinia scilloides. 

 Sanguinaria canadensis. 

 Scilla bifolia. 



,, sibirica. 



,, campanulata. 

 SisjTincliium gi-anditlo- 



rum. 

 Trillium grandiHorum 



(peat or leaf soil). 

 Tiili23a, in var. 



