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montana and C. varia), many of the taller Harebells, 

 Starworts (Aster), the Monkshoods which people fear in 

 gardens; the different species of Allium often not 

 welcome in gardens, some of which are beautiful, as, 

 the White Provence kind and the old yellow garden 

 Allium (Moly).. With the above almost exclusively 

 exotic things and our own wild flowers and ferns, 

 beautiful colonies may be made. 

 When I first wrote the Wild Garden, it was to 



THE TELLOW ALLIUM (A. M0I7) naturalized. 



encourage the gardener to put some beautiful life 

 in his garden grass, shrubberies, and half waste places 

 — if ashamed of that beautiful life among his Perilla 

 and dark Beet and Alternanthera. But now I want 

 the fields to be gardens too, since at Gravetye I found 

 I could do so much in the meadows mown for hay. 

 The Wild Garden I see now need not stop at the 

 pleasure-ground fence. Among the ways one may 

 enjoy it most is in the making of living fences. In 



