Group of Globe flowers (Trollius) in marshy place ; type of the nobler 
Northern flowers little cultivated in gardens. 
CHAPTER IV. 
EXAMPLE FROM THE GLOBE FLOWER ORDER. 
Let us next see what may be done with the Buttercup 
order of plants. It embraces many things widely diverse 
in aspect from these burnished ornaments of northern 
meadows and mountains. The first thing I should take 
from it to embellish the wild wood is the sweet-scented 
Virgin’s Bower (Clematis flammula), a native of the south 
of Europe, but as hardy and free in all parts of Britain 
as the common Hawthorn. And as the Hawthorn sweetens 
the breath of early summer, so will this add fragrance 
to the autumnal months. -It is never to be seen half so 
beautiful as when crawling over some tree or decayed stump ; 
and if its profuse masses of white bloom do not attract, its 
fragrance is sure to do so. An open glade in a wood, or open 
spaces on banks near a wood or shrubbery, would be charming 
for it, while in the garden or pleasure-ground it may be used 
