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overrun the choicer and more beautiful border-flowers when 
planted amongst them. These coarse subjects would be quite 
at home in copses and woody places, where their blossoms 
might be seen or gathered in due season, and their vigorous 
vegetation form a covert welcome to the game-preserver. To 
these two groups might be added subjects like the winter 
Heliotrope, the handsome British Willow herb, and many 
other plants which, while attractive in the garden, are apt to 
spread about so rapidly as to become a nuisance there. 
Clearly these should only be planted in wild and semi-wild 
places. 
Fifthly, because we may in this way settle also the 
question of spring flowers, and the spring garden, as well as 
that of hardy flowers generally. In the way I suggest, many 
parts of every country garden, and many suburban ones, may 
be made alive with spring flowers, without interfering at 
least with the geometrical beds that have been the worthless 
stock -in-trade of the so-called landscape - gardener for 
centuries. The Sea AUN pi ae 
seen to greater ¢ advantage “ wild,” in sha y or half-shady bare 
laces, under trees, than in any conceivable formal arrange- 
ment, and itis but one of hundreds of sweet spring flowers 
that will succeed perfectly in the way I propose. 
Sixthly, because there can be few more agreeable phases of 
communion with nature than naturalising the natives of 
countries in which we are infinitely more interested than in 
those of which greenhouse or stove plants are native. From 
the Roman ruin—home of many flowers, the prairies of the 
New World, the woods and meadows of all the great moun- 
tains of Europe; from Greece and Italy and Spain, from the 
