April 28, 1897.] 



Garden and Forest. 



165 



spring has seen an enormous development of bulb garden- 

 ing- in the parks and public gardens of London, and in 

 almost every case the difference between the wild garden 

 and the formal bedding styles is displayed by a liberal use 

 of both. In some cases the attempts at the more artistic 



art is needed for the production of a pleasing wild garden, 

 so called, than is commonly supposed. To so arrange tree 

 and shrub and herb and grass as to produce a pleasing 

 natural effect requires knowledge and taste of no mean 

 order. It is quite true that many so-called attempts at 



Fig. 19 — Pinus flexilis in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. — See page 162. 



style is a failure through faulty planting, either by sticking 

 the bulbs into the ground at equal distances apart, or by 

 planting them in positions where they are out of harmony 

 with their surroundings. Such attempts bring the wild- 

 garden style into ridicule. As a matter of fact, much more 



natural gardening deserve the sneers of such authorities as 

 Mr. Inigo Thomas, who calls them wildernesses, not 

 gardens. 



The plants used here for spring gardening are generally 

 of the commonest and cheapest character — Daffodils, 



