i6o The Wild Garden. 



therein ; and wherever' the natural rock crops 

 up in a picturesque way, a great deal of beauty 

 may be added to the place by planting these 

 rocky spots with wild flowers of a suitable nature. 

 There are hundreds of parks and grounds all over 

 the country that would grow to perfection the finer 

 wild flowers, in which noticeable kinds are not to be 

 seen, and when once a collection is obtained there 

 can be little difficulty in making good use of it. 



Need we grow weeds to have a fair representa- 

 tion of beautiful British wild flowers .' No such 

 thing ! It will be my pleasant task to look over 

 the whole British flora with the reader, to tell him 

 where to find and how to grow the rarer kinds, and 

 to enumerate all that are ornamental ; and in 

 doing so I shall have to name a great variety of 

 plants, but not one weedy subject I hope. In 

 the season of wild flowers, when many of us stray 

 into the fields, or on to the hills, to find many a 

 gem which I advise should be grown in the garden 

 instead of being made a mummy of, the more 

 beautiful British flowers will prove much more 

 delightful in wild and half-wild places near our 

 gardens, and scrambling over slopes and through 

 hedgerows, alive and full of change, than ever they 

 have done in the best herbarium. 



