CHAPTER XV. 



SELECTIONS OF HARDY EXOTIC PLANTS FOR THE 

 WILD GARDEN. 



An important point 

 is the getting of a stock 

 of plants to begin with. 

 In country or other 

 places where many 

 good old borderflowers 

 remain in the cottage 

 gardens, many plants may be found. Nurserj^ 

 beds should be formed in which such plants 

 could be increased. Free-growing spring- 

 flowers, like Aubrietia, Alyssum, and Iberis, 

 may be multiplied to any extent by division 

 or cuttings. Numbers of kinds may be raised 

 from seed sown rather thinly in drills, in 

 nursery beds in the open air. The best time for sowing is 

 spring, but any time in summer will do. Many perennials 

 and bulbs must be bought in nurseries, and increased as well 

 as may be in nursery beds. As to soil, the best way is to 

 avoid the trouble of preparing it ; the point is to adapt the 

 plant to the soil— in peaty places to place plants that 

 thrive in peat, in clay soils those that thrive in clays, and 

 so on. 



OPHETS, in grass. 



