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The Wild Garden 



as the Christmas Rose, yet they are of remarkable 

 beauty of fohage and habit as well as of blossom, 

 and they flower in the spring. These, too, show the 

 advantage of the wild garden as regards cultivation. 

 They will do better in any bushy places, or copses, 

 or in mutually sheltering 

 groups on warm banks 

 and slopes, even in hedge 

 banks, old quarries, or 

 rough mounds, 

 than in the or- 

 dinary garden 

 border. Of the 

 difference in the 

 effect in the two 

 cases it is need- 

 less to speak. 



Some of the 

 Monkshoods are 



THE GREEN HELLEBORE in the Wild G arden. 



handsome, but 



they are virulent_pQisonsj and, bearing in mind what 

 fatal accidents have arisen from their use, they are better 

 not used at all in the garden proper. Amongst tall and 

 vigorous herbaceous plants few are more suitable for 

 rough places. They are robust enough to grow any- 

 where in jhady^iJialf^^idysEots; and their tall spikes 

 of blue flowers are very beautiful. An illustration in the 

 chapter on the plants suited for the wild garden shows 

 the common Aconite in a Somersetshire valley in 



