GARDENING BY MYSELF. 05 



selves at home. How can you comfort the 

 partridge-berry, brought up in the shadow 

 of the great pine woods ? or what can make 

 amends to epigsea for the loss of its free 

 home among the rocks ? Will tulips and 

 hollyhocks be better society than the dear 

 mosses among which they nestle ? — will all 

 your admiration make up for the song of the 

 wild birds and the soft pat of the squirrel's 

 feet? 



There are some few exceptions to this, 

 but in general (as I have found) it is among 

 the hard stemmed plants. I have had the 

 wild azalea live and bloom in its new setting, 

 year after year ; and the clethra, donning 

 its white August dress as if at home. Yet 

 they did not grow very much, — just lived 

 and blossomed, biding their time. And in 

 both cases I gave them a bed of their own 

 native earth to rest in. 



Then there is moss-pink. If you have 

 ever seen moss-pink at home, revelling in 

 the clefts of the rocks in the spray of the 

 waterfall, I am not sure that you would 



