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The Wild Garden 



distinct and pretty plant, with many flowers of as fine a blue 

 as any gentian. Thrives in any deep sandy soil, and in such 

 well deserves naturalization among dwarf rock plants, in 

 sunny spots. 



Lychnis.— Handsome perennials, with showy blooms, 

 mostly of a brilliant rose or scarlet colour. If the type 

 were represented by the rose campion only it would 



be a valuable one, as 

 this is a beautiful plant 

 in dry soils, on which it 

 does not perish in winter. 

 The Lychnis are most 

 fitted for association with 

 medium-sized perennials, 

 in open places and in rich 

 soil. 



Honeysuckle, Loni- 

 cera. — Such favourites as 

 these must not be omitted. 

 Any kind of climbing 

 Honeysuckle will find a 

 happy home in the wild 

 garden, either rambling 

 over stumps or hedgerows, 

 or planted by themselves on banks. Our woods are graced 

 by our wild Honeysuckles, but where garden varieties or 

 new kinds of Honeysuckle from other countries occur, it is 

 well to add them to the wild garden. 



!Pea, Lathyrus. — Most cultivators of flowers are aware of 

 the rambling habits of the greater number of plants of the 

 pea tribe, but in that particular L. pyrenaicus eclipses them 

 all. It produces an immense quantity of bright orange 



EVERLASTING PEA, creeping up Btem in shrubbery. 



