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The Wild Garden 



verdure. Wild Roses, Purple Vetch, jloneysuck le, 

 and Virgin's Bower, clamber above smaller, but not 

 less pretty, wildlings, and, throwing veils of graceful 

 life over the 

 hedgerow, 

 remind us of 

 the plant-life 

 in the thick- 

 ets of low 

 shrubs on the 

 Alpine mea- 

 dows. Next 

 to the most 

 beautiful as- 

 pects of Al- 

 pine flowers, there 

 are few things in 

 plant-life more 

 lovely than the delicate 

 tracery of low-climbing things 

 wedded to the shrubs in all 

 northern and temperate regions. 

 Often perishing like grass, they are 

 safe in the earth's bosom in winter ; 



J, J. , THE LASSE WHITE BIND- 



m spring, nndmg the bushes once weed. Type of bomm 



climbing plants, with annual 



more enjoyable, they rush over them T:^^^. '^°""' "' 

 as children from school over a meadow of cowslips. 

 Over bush, over brake, on mountain or lowland -copse, 

 holding on with delicate grasp, they engrave them- 



