14 FLOWER GARDENING 
A bog garden is a wet one, more or less faith- 
fully reproducing boggy conditions. It is just the 
place for segregating some of the orchids, ferns 
and other native plants that otherwise are liable 
to perish in cultivation, or at best grow only half- 
heartedly. It may be also a peat garden, or just 
the moister section of one—the remainder to be 
higher land for rhododendrons, heather, lilies and 
other peat-loving plants. 
Of what may be called sentimental gardens there 
are doubtless more kinds than will ever be num- 
bered, because any one is likely to extend the list 
through purely personal promptings of the heart. 
The best for general recommendation is the garden 
of friendship. All of the plants in it, of course, 
are from friends or from seed sent by them; and 
it is astonishing to find how many are only too 
glad to contribute. Long-lived, hardy plants ought 
to be given the preference. 
A garden of association might mean this, too; 
but a wise differentiation is a gathering together of 
plants—personally and through friends—that 
come from places of historical and literary interest. 
Shakspere, Bible and Virgil gardens are among 
the possible specializations, though all offer ob- 
stacles to completeness that few would find sur- 
mountable. Enough for most will be to visualize 
“Daffodils that come before the swallow dares” 
or some of the other easy references. 
The name garden has occasional possibilities that 
have not begun to be recognized. Rose and Vic- 
