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flowers than the most ardent admirer of the old style 

 of garden ever dreams of, by naturalizing many 

 beautiful plants of many regions of the earth in our 

 fields, woods and copses, outer parts of pleasure 

 grounds, and in neglected places in almost every kind 

 of garden. 



I allude not to the wood and brake flora of any 

 one country, but to that which finds its home in the vast 

 hill-fields of the whole northern world, and that of the 

 hill-ground that falls 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 stemless 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 rills that seam them. 

 They are the Lilies, and Bluebells, and Foxgloves, 

 and Irises, and Windflowers, and Columbines, and 

 Violets, and Crane's-bills, an4 countless_Pea-flowers, 

 and Moon Daisies, and Brambl^j^d Cinquefoils, and 

 FvpTvingr primrnt;F;s, ^nd Clpmai-iq, jind Honeysuck les, 

 and Michaelmas_Daisies, and Wood Hyacinths, and 

 Daffodils, and Bindweeds, and Forget-me-nots, and 

 ^blue^mp halod es, and Prmaix»ses,-and Day Lilies, and 

 Asphodels, and St. Bruno's Lilies, and the myriads 

 of plants which form the flora of the northern or 

 temperate regions of vast continents. 



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