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portant genera, it will be seen that a whole garden of beauty 
may be reaped from this tribe alone. Any one who doubts 
the advantages of carrying out the idea of the wild garden 
could settle the matter to his satisfaction in a couple of years 
with these plants alone, in a shrubbery, ditch, lane, copse, or 
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The Cretan Borage (Borago Cretica). 
wood, always providing that he takes care to adapt each kind 
to the position and the soil. For instance, the Giant Comfrey 
will grow six feet high in rich or moist soil in a partially 
shaded ditch, and therefore, once fairly started, might be 
trusted to take care of itself in any position. The Caucasian 
Comfrey, on the other hand, grows from eighteen inches to 
two feet high, and is at home in the spaces in a copse or 
