CHAPTER VII 



THE WILD GARDEN 



TTj^OR years I have been writing of a type 

 of garden familiar to me through long 

 experience. Now, however, I am about to 

 describe briefly another form of plant culture 

 and gardening of which I have had little per- 

 sonal experience, but the possibilities of which 

 I have observed for many years, during which 

 I have watched the beginning, progress and 

 development of a great natural or wild garden. 

 The term "wild garden" may be as descrip- 

 tive of the garden made from native material 

 without cultivation of the soil, and as expres- 

 sive of native resources, as the terms English 

 garden or Italian garden, where the yews of 

 England and cypress of Italy give at once the 

 dominant note peculiar to the country where 

 each is situated. 



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