CHAPTER VI. 



DITCHES, SHADY LANES, COPSES, AND HEDGEROWS. 



Men seek sunny spots for their 

 , .^ gardens, so that they 

 would scarcely per- 

 haps care for these for 

 a garden! Yet there 

 are ditches, and shady 

 nooks in every dis- 

 trict, that maybe made 

 more beautiful than 

 many a 'flower-gar- 

 den.' But what would 

 grow in them ? Many 

 of the beautiful wood 

 plants of the north — 

 things that do not care 

 for sunny hillsides or meadows, but take sheltgrinwoods, 

 or are happy deep between rocks, or in caves beneath 

 the great boulders on many a mountain gorge, and 

 garland the flanks of rock that guard the rivers on their 

 way through the hills. And as these dark walls, ruined 



Foliage of TEAZLE, on hedge-bank in spring. 



