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The Wild Garden 



for years. Some roots of the common Myrrh (Myrrhis 

 odorata), thrown out of the garden in digging, had 

 rooted by accident and spread into a httle colony. 

 Ajnongjliejuftsof Myrrh some tall jvhite_Harehells 

 came, also thrown out of the flower-beds in the garden 

 to get rid of them, and the effect of these, standing 

 above the spreading foliage of the Myrrh in the shade 



A BEAUTIFUL ACCIDENT. — A colony of Myxrhls odorata, in Bhrubbery not do^. 

 with white HaiebeUs here and there. 



of the trees, was very beautiful. The front of the 

 shrubbery in which this picture was found was as 

 stiff and hideous as usual — raw earth, full of mutilated 

 roots, and shrubs cut in for the convenience and the 

 taste of the diggers. This was in the shrubbery 

 surrounding the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, where 

 Mr. Parsons made a sketch of it here engraved on 

 wood. 



