THE WILD GARDEN 



CHAPTER I. 



EXPLANATORY. 



About a generation ago a taste began 

 to be shown for placing numbers of ten- 

 der plants in the open air in summer, 

 to produce showy masses of colour. 

 The plants were mostly from sub- 

 tropical lands ; placed annually in 

 the open air of our summer, and 

 in fresh earth, every year they 

 grew and flowered abundantly 

 until cut down by the first frosts. 

 The showy colour of this system 

 was very attractive, and 

 since its intro- 

 duction there 

 has been a gra- 

 dual rooting 

 out of all the 

 old favourites 



C-ZLOWERED MEADOW RUE ; type of plane moatly excluded 

 £rom the Garden. 



