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The Wild Garden 



require a very long list to enumerate all the plants 

 that would grow near the margins of water, apart 

 from the true water-plants ; given a strip of ground 

 beside a stream or lake, a garden of the most delightful 

 kind may be formed of them. The juxtaposition of 

 plants inhabiting different situations— water-plants, 

 water-side plants, and land-plants thriving in moist 

 ground — would prevent what would, in many cases, 

 be so undesirable — a general admixture of the whole. 



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MAR9H MARIGOLD AND IRIS in early spring. (See p. lil.) 



and greatly add to the effect, which is very fine indeed 

 where both the surface of the water and the banks are 

 gay with flowers. 



An interesting point in favour of the wild garden is 

 the..successifin of effects which it may afford, and which 

 are shown by the illustrations on these pages, both 

 showing a succession of life on the same spot of 

 ground. 



The bog garden is a home for the numerous children 

 of the wild that will not thrive on our harsh, bare, and 

 dry garden borders, but must be cushioned on moss, or 



