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bedding or any other system, follow one infinitely 

 superior to any now practised, yet supplementing 

 both, and exhibiting more of the varied beauty of 

 hardy flowers than the most ardent admirer of the 

 old style of garden ever dreams of. We may do 

 this by naturalizing or making wild innumerable 

 beautiful natives of many regions of the earth in 

 our woods, wild and semi-wild places, rougher parts 

 of pleasure grounds, etc., and in unoccupied places 

 in almost every kind of garden. 



I allude not to the wood and brake flora of any 

 one alp or chain of alps, but to that which finds its 

 home in the immeasurable woodlands that fall in 

 furrowed folds from beneath the hoary heads of all 

 the great mountain chains of the world, whether 

 they rise from hot Indian plains or green European 

 pastures. The Palm and sacred Fig, as well as the 

 Wheat and the Vine, are separated from the stem- 

 less plants that cushion under the snow for half the 

 year, by a zone of hardier and not less beautiful life, 

 varied as the breezes that whisper on the mountain 

 sides, and as the little rills that seam them. I allude to 

 the Lilies, and Bluebells, and Foxgloves, and Irises, 

 andWindflowers,and Columbines, and Aconites, and 

 Rock-roses, and Violets, and Cranesbills, and count- 

 less Pea-flowers, and mountain Avens, and Brambles, 



