Example from the Forget-me-not family 27 



dissitiflora. This is like a patch of the bluest sky, 

 before our own Forget-me-not has opened, and is 

 admirable for banks in a wood or for moist stony- 

 slopes. In carting away the soil to put in the foun- 

 dations of an addition to Gravetye house, many 

 loads of rubbish were thrown in a heap in Warrens 

 wood, where a year afterwards I came upon some 

 beautiful tufts of this which had planted themselves 

 from bits thrown out with the rubbish. 



For rocky places and sandy banks we have the 

 spreading Gromwell (Lithospermum prostratum) of 

 a fine gentian-blue. 



Good plants are the Lungwort s (Pulmo naria), and often 

 destroyed through exposure on bare dug and often 

 dry borders. The old Pulmonaria (Mertensia virginica) 

 is one of the loveliest of spring flowers. It is rare 

 in gardens; if placed in a moist place "gar_ a_stream, 

 or in a peat or free sandy bottom, it will live ; whereas 

 it frequently dies in a garden. The newer and more 

 easily grown Mertensia sibirica is a lovely plant, taller 

 and loving a marshy place. These two plants alone 

 would repay a trial in the wild garden and may show 

 that for cultivation alone (apart from art, or arrange- 

 ment) the wild-garden idea is sometimes worth 

 carrying out. 



Among annual flowers we have Borage, a few seeds 

 of which scattered over fresh ground soon germinate, 

 and form pretty patches. 



The Cretan Borage is a curious old perennial, 



