Plants chiefly fitted for the Wild Garden 47 



a choice place in the mixed border will find a home. 

 Of such plants there are numbers in every northern 

 country. The taller Yarrows^the stately Aconites, the 

 vigorous, and at certain seasons handsome, Althaeas^ 

 A ngelica with its fine foliage, the herbaceous kinds of 

 Aralia with fine foliage from the American woods, also 

 the Wormwood family (Artemisia), the stronger kinds 

 of Aiherican Cotton-weed (Asclepias), certain vigorous 

 Asparagus, Starworts in great variety, Betonica, pretty, 

 and with delicate flowers, but hardly fit for the mixed 

 border, various vigorous Grasses, showy Buphthalniums, 

 handsome Bindweeds, too free in a garden, the .stout 

 Carnpanulas, exotic Thistles, numerous Centaurea, 

 somewhat too coarse for the garden ; and among other 

 hardy plants, the following are chiefly suitable for the 

 wild garden : 



