fields are thick with the clumps of powdered yellow heads and Wild 
their delicate scent pervades the air. There is many an orchard Flowers for 
adjoining the garden, where these might be introduced to suc- the Garden 
ceed Primroses and Violets in the grass, and where they would 
seed and increase of themselves. 
Gorse is another of our wild beauties too often neglected, 
turning as it does our commons and cliffs into sheets of gold. 
For small gardens of course it is not suitable, but there are 
many larger ones where, if it is lacking as a wild plant, it and 
the handsome double form might be introduced as a belt under 
hedges, or on banks, or at the edge of a drive for the sake of 
their scent as well as colour. Both are easily grown from 
cuttings, and the single form from seed as well. 
Periwinkles I have seen charmingly mixed with Gorse, 
to cover banks in an exposed position. Both the large and the 
small Periwinkle—Vincea major and minor—do well in almost any 
soil, and can be charmingly used in many poor situations, where 
nothing else will grow and where their trailing growth is invalu- 
able. The white must not be forgotten, nor the rich plum-red 
one. Not long ago I found in a friend’s garden a charming little 
picture of moss-grown brick steps wreathed with this latter 
variety, whose dark green leaves and rich-coloured flowers were 
set off by the delicate pale green of Fumitory which had estab- 
lished itself in crevices. ‘These Fumitories, by the way, are very 
useful woodland flowers, either as carpets to other plants or by 
themselves. Corydalis bracteata and nobilis with yellow flowers 
are two of the showiest; so/ida with purple flowers I have seen 
naturalised in a wood, and C. /ufea in entire possession of an 
old wall and seeding itself by the hundred below. 
To our wild wood Anemone could be added the blue 
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