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northern Fir-woods is beginning to spread. The Fox- 

 glove was not originally found in the neighbourhood ; 

 now the ordinary kind and the various other forms 

 of this fine wild flower adorn the woods. In this way 

 also the Lily of the Valley has been planted and is 

 spreading rapidly. Many climbing Roses and various 

 other climbers have been planted at the bases of trees 

 and stumps. A White Indian Clematis here, first trained 

 on a wall, sent up some of its shoots through a tree close 

 at hand, and now the long shoots hang from the tree full 

 of flowers. The large plumes of the nobler hardy Ferns 

 are seen here and there through the trees and Grass, 

 and they are better here among the Grass and flowers, 

 half shaded by trees, than in the ' hardy Fernery.' The 

 wild garden of the future will be also the true home of 

 all the larger hardy Ferns. The rivals of the Ferns in 

 beauty of foliage, the Ferulas, and other hardy plants 

 with beautifully cut foliage, have also their homes in the 

 wild garden. The Welsh Poppy thrives, as might be 

 expected, admirably in the grove, its rich yellow cups 

 just showing above the meadow. 



In another part of the grounds there is a high walk 

 quite away from trees, open and dry, with banks on each 

 side— a sun-walk, with Scotch Roses, Brooms, Sun 

 Roses, Rock Roses, and things that love the sun, like 

 the plants of the hot and rocky hillsides of the Mediter- 

 ranean shores. Spanish Broom, Lavenders, Rosemary, 

 Thyme, and Balm, are among the plants that thrive as well 

 on a sunny sandy bank in England as in Italy or Greece. 



