42 The Wild Garden 



subjects that are now creeping into cultivation owing to 

 the revival of interest in hardy plants. Many of these 

 have some botanical interest, but they can be only 

 useless in the garden. Our chief danger now is getting 

 into cultivation plants that are neither very distinct nor 

 very beautiful, while perhaps we neglect many of the 

 really fine kinds. This Atragene is a precious plant 

 for low bush and bank wild gardening. 



Among plants which one rarely sees in a flower- 

 garden are the M eadow Rue s; yet there is a quiet 

 beauty about them. As some will grow often in a 

 hedgerow or lane or byway, or in a copse, or under 

 the shrubs, in places usually abandoned to common 

 weeds, there is no reason why they should not be 

 rescued from the oblivion of the botanic garden. 



