Excuse and Epilogue 



In the wide open space of the wild garden will 

 be growing some of the nobler of hardy foliage 

 plants, yuccas, Rodgersia podophylla, Acanthus 

 Latifolius, kniphofia, Petasites and lupins and 

 delphiniums and campanulas. From these large 

 groups a path will wind down through the wood 

 to the entrance to the lower lawn, carrying with 

 it bluebells, primroses, anemone Japonica, iris 

 Siberica, primula Japonica and Cashmeriana, and 

 the many flowers that will grow naturally in a 

 wood with plenty of room in which to increase 

 themselves. There is no end to the lovely wild 

 things that — as if by magic — will spring up, given 

 but the smallest encouragement on my part. And 

 then, on the north, another piece of the wood is 

 to be taken in to make a tennis-court at the foot 

 of the heather-ride through the pines. Here again 

 there shall be a wild garden of as many flowers 

 as care to grow in it, and perhaps a row of bee- 

 hives and a place for such strange animals as may 

 be imported in the future. . . . There, so far as 

 I know at present — one can never vouch for the 

 expression that accumulated energy will choose — 

 structural improvements end. . . . 



Even a gardener is an economic entity — ex- 

 ploded fiction though the economic man may be — 

 and suffers from fluctuation in the markets, and the 



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