78 ffifte eSfarten's <Stota. 



these, with the dwarf cornel (Cornus Canaden- 

 sts), itself a bold rambler and always fresh-look- 

 ing, are charming when well established in the 

 Alpine garden. 



I should like to see a wild-woods garden 

 placed in almost entire shade, and free from 

 all rude draughts of air, composed exclusively 

 of some of our native trailers and flowers, and 

 a few of the miniature ferns. For the trailers, 

 runners, and carpet plants, for instance, twin- 

 flower, partridge- vine, goldthread, dwarf cornel, 

 fringed Polygala, false Solomon's-seal, prince's- 

 pine, ground-pine, and winter-green ; with star- 

 flowers, Pyrolas, bluets, and star-grass ; and, for 

 the small ferns, the common polypody, the oak 

 and beech-ferns, the smaller Cystopteris, some 

 of the dwarf spleenworts, and the hart's-tongue. 



