1 82 The Wild Garden 



over a yard long, and the flower-stems over 6 feet high 

 in good soil. 



Water Lily, Nymphcea and Nuphar. — Two noble North 

 American plants well deserve naturalization in our waters, 

 associated with our own beautiful white water lilies — the 

 large Nuphar advena, which thrusts its great leaves well 

 out of the water in many parts of North America, and the 

 sweet-scented Nymphaea odorata, which floats in crowds 

 on many of the pine-bordered lakes and lakelets of New 

 England, looking very like our own water lily. These and 

 the new and beautiful hybrid water lilies have been dealt 

 with fully in the Chapter on Water Plants. 



Daffodil, Narcissus. — Most people have seen the common 

 daffodil in a wild state in our woods and fields. Apart from 

 varieties, there are more than a score of species of daffodil that 

 could be naturalized quite as easily as this in all parts of these 

 islands. Of all the planting I have ever made, the planting of 

 these in the grass has given the greatest pleasure and the 

 most lasting. They were put in by thousands, in the meadows 

 mown for hay as well as in the less shaven parts of the pleasure 

 ground, and no kind that we tried failed save the Bayonne 

 Daffodil. We did not try the southern and Hoop Petticoat 

 kinds, as the soil was not warm or sandy enough. 



Bitter Vetch, Orobus. — Banks, grassy unmown margins 

 of wood-walks, rocks, fringes of shrubberies, and like places, 

 with deep and sandy loam, well drained, will grow the 

 beautiful spring Bitter Vetch or any of its varieties or allies 

 perfectly. 



Evening Primrose, Enothera. — Among the handsomest of 

 hardy flowers. The yellow species, and varieties allied to 

 the common Evening Primrose (CE. biennis), may be readily 

 naturalized in any soil. These noble and fragrant flowers 



