XILIES oomiugup through carpet of WHITE AEABIS. 



FOREWORDS TO NEW EDITION 



The ivild rose has given her petals to the iviiids for 

 over tivciify siiiiiniers since this book zvith its solitary 

 K'ood cut first saw the light, and if these many years give 

 me any right to judge my oivn book, I mar say that 

 much experience since tells me that the ' Wild Garden ' 

 deserved to live, and that such ideas carried out a'ith 

 some regard to the soil and other things affecting 

 plants in each place, may be fertile in making our open 

 air gardens more artistic and delightful. 



The best thing I have learnt from my own wild garden- 

 ing is that ive nuiy grow 'without care nuiiy lovely early 

 bulbs in the turf of meadoivs, i. e. fields mown for hay, 

 -without in the least interfering ivilh the use of the fields. 



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