THE 

 GARDEN OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS, 



However well people may be acquainted with the 

 floral beauties of our fields and- woods in Spring or 



It 



Summer, few have any conception of the great 

 number of really pretty flowers that may be selected 

 from wild places in various parts of the British 

 isles, and cultivated with success in a garden. Few 

 of us, except working botanists, and they are 

 sparsely scattered beings, have much notion of the 

 great variety of beauty that may be culled froni 

 British flowers alone ; and as botanists very rarely 

 cultivate wild flowers, they can quite as rarely 

 select the kinds best suited for our gardens. Most 

 of us have full opportunity of seeing the beauties of 

 the fields and hedges ; not so many the mountain 

 plants, and few such rare gems as Gentiana verna, 

 which grows wild in Teesdale, and here and there 

 on the western shores of Ireland, or the mountain 

 Forget-me-not, a precious little dwarf alpine that is 



