1 62 The Wild Garden 



sometimes deliciously fragrant. They are best suited for 

 covering stumps, planting on rocky places, among low 

 shrubs in copses, for draping over the faces of rocks, 

 sunny banks, or the brows of sunk fences, covering objec- 

 tionable railings, rough bowers, chalk pits, hedges, &c., and 

 occasionally for isolating in large tufts in open spaces where 

 their effect could be seen from a distance. Not particular 

 as to soil, the stronger kinds will grow in any ground, but 

 the large-flowered new hybrids will thrive best in warm, rich, 

 deep soil. C. Viorna, C. flammula, montana, campaniflora, 

 Viticella, and cirrhosa, must not be omitted from a selection 

 of the wild kinds. 



Dwarf Cornel, Cornus canadensis. — This charming little 

 plant, beautiful from its white bracts, thrives in moist, sandy, 

 or peaty spots, in which our native heaths — Mitchella repens, 

 Linnaea borealis, and the Butterworts would be likely to 

 thrive. 



Mocassin Flower, Cypripedium spedabile. — The hand- 

 somest of hardy orchids, found far north in America, and 

 thriving perfectly in England and Ireland in deep rich 

 vegetable soil. In places where the soil is not naturally 

 peat or rich vegetable matter this fine plant will succeed on 

 the margins of beds of rhododendrons, &c. It should be 

 sheltered by surrounding bushes, and be in a moist position. 

 Others of the genus, and various other hardy orchids, are 

 worthy of naturalization ; the mocassin flower is the best as 

 well as the most easily tried. 



Sowbread, Cyclamen. — It was the sight of a grove nearly 

 covered with Cyclamen hedersefolium, near Montargis,\ in 

 France, that first led me to think of how many plants 

 might be trusted in like ways. Both C. hederasfolium and 

 C. europseum may be naturalized with ease on light, loamy, 



