THE WILD GARDEN. 
ONE WAY ONWARDS FROM THE DARK AGES OF 
FLOWER-GARDENING. 
CHAPTER I. 
EXPLANATORY. 
AnOUT a generation ago a taste began to be 
manifested for placing a number of tender 
plants in the open air in summer, with a 
view to the production of showy masses 
of decided colour, The subjects selected 
were mostly from sub-tropical climates 
and of free erowth; placed annually in 
the open air of our genial early sum- 
mer, and in fresh rich earth, every year 
they grew rapidly and flowered abun- 
dantly dming the summer and early 
autumn months, and 
until cut down 
by the first frosts. 
_ The showy colour 
~ » of this system was 
very attractive, 
Large-flowered Meadow Rue in the Wild Garden, type of 
plant mostly excluded from the Garden. 
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and since its intro- 
