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might be seen or gathered in due season, and their 

 vigorous vegetation form a covert welcome to the 

 game preserver. To these two groups might be 

 added subjects like the winter Heliotropes, the hand- 

 some British Epilobium angustifolium, and many 

 other plants which, while attractive in the garden, 

 are apt to spread about so rapidly as to become a 

 nuisance there. Clearly these should only be planted 

 in wild and semi-wild places. Fifthly, because we 

 may in this way settle also the question of spring 

 flowers, and the spring garden, as well as that of 

 hardy flowers generally. In the way I suggest, many 

 parts of every country garden, and many suburban 

 ones, may be made alive with spring flowers. 

 The blue stars of the Apennine Anemone will be 

 seen to greater advantage " wild," in shady or half- 

 shady bare places, under trees, than in any con- 

 ceivable formal arrangement, and it is but one of 

 hundreds of sweet spring flowers that will succeed 

 perfectly in the way I propose. Sixthly, because 

 there can be few more agreeable phases of com- 

 munion with nature than naturalizing the natives 

 «f countries in which we are infinitely more 

 interested than in those of greenhouse or stove 

 plants. From the walls of the Coliseum, the prairies 

 of the New World, the woods and meadows of all 



