AUTUMN CROCUSES in the Wild Garden. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



SOME RESULTS. 



Details of a few of the results obtained, where the 

 system has been tried, in addition to those already given 

 of Longleat, may not be without interest. How much 

 a wild garden intelligently made may effect for a country 

 seat is shown at Crowsley in Oxfordshire. It is one of 

 the first-formed wild gardens existing, and in May was 

 full of charms. No garden yields its beauty so early in 

 the year, or over a more prolonged season, than the wild 

 garden, as is abundantly evidenced here. The maker 

 of this wild garden had no inviting site with which to 

 deal ; no great variety of surface, no variety of soil for 

 plants of widely different habitats to be grown ; he had 

 only a neglected plantation, with a poor gravelly soil 



