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for the wild garden. Mr. Ellam planted out some spare stock 

 of S. japonica in a wood at Bodorgan, and with the happiest 

 effect. The plants grow and flower freely, the flowers 

 appearing a fortnight later in the moist cool wood than on 

 plants of the same kind on a north garden border ; and so 

 prolong the season of this favourite flower. 



Golden Rod, Solidago. — Tall perennials with yellow flowers, 

 showy when in bloom, and attractive when seen in America 

 in autumn, mingled with the Starworts of that country, but 

 rarely pretty as grown in gardens. These, like the worst of 

 Asters, used to be grown to excess in the old borders ; but 

 the positions they are best for are rough places, where in 

 many cases it would be easy, with their aid and that of the 

 Asters, to form that mixture of Golden Rod and Michaelmas 

 Daisies which is one of the prettiest effects in American woods 

 in autumn. 



Catch-fly, Silene. — Dwarf or spreading plants, allied to the 

 pinks, and generally with white or rosy flowers. The choice 

 mountain kinds, such as S. Lagascse, alpestris, Schafta, &c., 

 are among the most charming subjects that can be naturalized 

 on rocky places or banks, associated with very dwarf plants. 

 Such fine annual or biennial kinds as S. Armeria or S. pendula 

 are among the best, and might be easily established by 

 scattering a few seeds in likely places. 



Bloodwort, Sanguinaria canadensis. — This little plant, 

 which abounds in the woods of Canada and North America, 

 and which is very rarely indeed seen well grown in our gardens, 

 will thrive under the branches of deciduous trees as well as 

 the winter aconite, and in spring will give a beautiful effect. 



Squill, Scilla. — Several kinds of Scilla, closely allied to the 

 common bluebell, would do quite as well in our woods as that 

 well-known native plant, notably S. campanulata, S. bifolia 



