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done in the name of flower-gardening, it were many 

 times better to carry them out in a place apart, rather 

 than expose the foreground of a 

 beautiful house or landscape to such 

 disfigurement. Spring flowers are 

 easily grown in multitudes away from 

 the house, and, therefore, for their 

 sakes the system of digging up the 

 flower-beds twice a year need not be 

 carried out. Wild gardening should 

 go hand in hand with the thorough 

 cultivation of the essential beds of 

 the flower-garden around the house, 

 and to their being filled with plants 

 quite different from those we entrust 

 to the crowded chances of turf or 

 hedgerow: — to rare or tender plants TheMonNTAm clematis: 

 or choice garden flowers like the Tea Rose and Carna- 

 tion — plants which often depend for their beauty on their 

 double states, and for which rich soil and care and 

 often protection are essential. 



