CHAPTER XIV. 



HARDY EXOTIC FLOWERING PLANTS FOR THE 

 WILD GARDEN. 



Wherever there is room, plants for the Wild Garden 

 should be at first grown in nursery beds to ensure 

 a good supply. The many nursery collections of hardy 

 plants being now more numerous than they were a few 

 years ago, getting the plants is not so difficult as it once 

 was. The sources of supply are these nurseries ; seed 

 houses, which publish lists of hardy plant seeds — 

 many kinds may be easily raised from seed ; botanic 

 gardens, in which many plants are grown that hitherto 

 have not found a place in our flower-gardens ; orchards 

 and cottage gardens in pleasant country places may 

 supply good plants from time to time ; and those who 

 travel may bring seeds or roots of plants they meet 

 with in cool or mountain regions Bulb and seed- 

 merchants should offer hardy bulbs in large quantities 

 for wild gardening, and at nearly wholesale rates. Few 

 plants, vigorous and hardy in the British Islands with- 

 out any attention after planting, are included here :— 



