GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



These wild gardens can stand a much more abundant 

 planting than those that are purely formal. Nature, 

 when she strews the earth, is often very lavish. Wild 

 flowers, besides, are fleeting in temperament. They 

 are here to-day; to-morrow they are gone. But nature 

 arranges that one shall come in as another goes out. 

 No wild garden should be without the Black Cohosh 

 or snakeroot, Cimicifuga racemosa, which lifts its long 

 racemes of white flowers several feet high, waving like 

 spooks in the summer moonlight. It is as valuable 

 to the wild garden as auratum lilies are to one that 

 is formal. 



It is never pleasing to see, as sometimes happens, 

 a naturalistic garden filled in with flowers denoting 

 hypercultivation; nor to see plants of immature per- 

 sonalities occupying a formal garden. No bloom is 

 invariably better than bloom out of place. 



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