GKOUP OP GLOBE FLOWEHS (TrolUus) in moist place; type of nobler 

 Northern flowers little cultivated in gardens. 



CHAPTER IV. 



EXAMPLE FROM THE GLOBE FLOWER ORDER. 



The Buttercup order of plants embraces many 

 widely diverse in aspect from the common kinds that 

 burnish our meadows. In it, for the Wild Garden, 

 is the sweet-scented Virgi n's Bower (Clematis flam- 

 mula), a native of the south of Europe, but as hardy 

 in all parts of Britain as our native Clematis. And 

 as the Hawthorn sweetens the air of spring, so will 

 this add fragrance to the autumnal months. It is 

 never more beautiful than when crawling over some 

 low tree or shrubs, and I have planted it in newly 

 formed hedgerows. An open glade in a wood, or on 

 shrubby banks near, would be charming for it, while 

 in the pleasure ground it may be used as a creeper 

 over old stumps or trees. The -Hair , Bell Virgin's 

 Bowe r (Clematis campaniflora), and the beautiful white 



