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The Wild Garden 



native kinds, and well worthy of naturalization everywhere. 

 It thrives best on moist and sandy or rocky soil. 



Molopospermum cicutarium. — A very fine plant, with 

 large deeply-divided leaves of a lively green colour, forming 

 a dense irregular bush. Many of the umbellate plants, while 

 very elegant, perish by the end of June, but this is firmer in 

 character, of a fine rich green, growing more than 3 feet 

 high. It is hardy, and increased by seed or division, and 



loves a deep moist 

 soil, but will thrive 

 in any good garden 

 soil. It is a fine 

 plant for grouping 

 with other hardy 

 and graceful-leaved 

 plants. 



Stock, Matthiola. 

 — Showy flowers, 

 mostly fragrant, 

 peculiarly well 

 suited for old ruins, 

 chalkpits, and stony 

 banks. Some of the 

 annual kinds are 

 pretty. With the 

 Stocks may be asso- 

 ciated the single 

 rocket (Hesperis 

 matronalis), which thrives on woody banks and in copses. 



Bee Balm, Monarda. — Large and very showy herbaceous 

 plants, with scarlet or purple flowers, beautiful in American 

 and Canadian woods in autumn, and good plants for 



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Type of fine-leaved umbellate plants eeldom grown in gardens. 



