EXAMPLE FROM HARDY BULBS AND TUBERS. 17 
“Jong and pleasant grass” of the other parts of the grounds. 
It would indeed be worth while to leave many parts of the 
grass unmown for the sake of growing many beautiful plants 
init. If in some spot where a wide fringe of grass spreads 
out in the bay of a shrubbery or plantation, and upon this 
carpet of rising and unshaven verdure there be dotted, in 
addition to the few pretty natural 
flowers that happened to take pos- 
session of it, the blue Apennine 
Anemone, the Snowdrop, the Snow- 
flake, Crocuses” in variety, Scillas, 
Grape-Hyacinths, earlier and smaller ; 
Narcissi, the Wood Anemone, and — 
any other pretty Spring flowers that 
were suitable to the soil and position, 
we should have a glimpse of the 
vernal beauty of temperate and - 
northern climes, every flower re- | 
lieved by grass blades and green | 
leaves, the whole devoid of any 
‘The association of exotic and British 
trace of man, or his exceeding weak- wild flowers in the Wild Garden. 
, —tThe Bell-flowered Scilla, nat- 
ness for tracing wall-paper pat- uralised with our own Wood 
. Hyacinth. 
terns, where everything should be 
varied, indefinite, and changeful. In such a garden it 
would be evident that the artist had caught the true mean- 
ing of nature in her disposition of vegetation, without 
sacrificing one jot of anything of value in the garden, 
but, on the contrary, adding the highest beauty to spots 
devoid of the slightest interest. In connection with this 
matter I may as well say here that mowing the grass once 
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