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The Wild Garden 



when at its height; and when out of bloom it will 

 be followed by other kinds of beauty. 

 Fourthly, because it will enable us to grow many 

 plants that have never yet obtained 

 a place in our 'trim gardens.' I 

 mean plants which, jiQt-SOu^owy 

 as-many-grQHmJja-gardenSi_arejieyer 

 seen iberei]i,__The flowers of many 

 of these are of great beauty, especially 

 when seen in numbers. 

 A tuft of one of these 

 in a border may not 

 be thought worthy of 

 its place, while in some 

 wild glade, as a little 

 colony, grouped natur- 

 ally, its effect may be 

 exquisite. There are 

 many plants too that, 

 grown in gardens, are no great aid to them — like the 

 Golden Rods, and other plants of the great order Com- 

 positse, which merely overrun the choicer and more 

 beautiful border-flowers when planted amongst them. 

 These coarse plants would be quite at home in copses 

 and woody places, where their blossoms might be seen 

 or gathered in due season, and their vigorous vegetation 

 form a covert welcome to the game-preserver. To 

 these two groups might be added plants like the winter 

 Heliotrope, and many others which, while not without 



BLUE-FLOWBRED COMPOSITE PLA'NT ; fine foliage 

 and habit; type of noble plants excluded from 

 gardens. (Mulgediuxa Plamieii.) 



