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in France, and is there still seen in all its bareness, 

 spread to many of our gardens ; it consisted of putting 

 out in formal masses a few biennial plants, such as the 

 Wood Forget-me-not and Silene. This necessitated 

 a complete change in the contents of the beds every 

 year, or, rather, twice a year, and therefore prevented 

 their being given to the nobler kinds of flower 

 gardening. It is easy to have all the flower-beds proper 

 devoted to precious and enduring plants, such as Tea 

 Roses, Carnations, and the plants that require good 

 and constant culture and time for development, by 

 the aid of the wild garden. We begin with the blue 

 Apennine Anemone : of this I planted several thou- 

 sand roots in grass. Not having any beds or borders 

 near the house where I wanted it, I put it in meadows 

 around the house in light broken groups and masses. 

 It flowers and increases every year without the slightest 

 attention ; and, being early in growth as compared with 

 grass, disappears before the meadow grass has to be 

 cut in summer. This is an important point, and 

 shows what may be done with many beautiful spring 

 flowers. One has the pleasure of seeing them year by 

 year flowering in their seasons, and giving delightful 

 effects, as these Anemones did this year, both in groups 

 in the open sunny fields, and also clustering thickly 

 round the base of old Elm-trees on their margin. 

 Among the blue Anemone, here and there, stood 

 groups of Narcissus, and in cases where the Anemones 

 and Daffodils flowered together the effect was often 



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