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will thrive much better in any bushy places, or copses, or in 
mutually sheltering groups on warm banks and slopes, even in 
hedge banks, old quarries, or rough mounds, than in the ordinary 
garden border. Of the difference in the effect in the two 
cases it is needless to speak. 
Some of the Monkshoods are very handsome, but all of 
them virulent poisons; and, bearing in mind what fatal 
accidents have arisen from their use, they are better not 
used at all in the garden proper. Amongst tall and 
vigorous herbaceous plants few are more suitable for wild 
and semi-wild places. They are hardy and robust enough 
to grow anywhere in shady or half-shady spots; and their 
tall spikes, loaded with blue flowers, are very beautiful. 
An illustration in the chapter on the plants suited for the 
wild garden shows the common Aconite in a Somersetshire 
valley in company with the Butterbur and the Hemlock. 
Tn such a place its beauty is very striking. The larger rich 
blue kinds, and the blue and white one, are very showy 
grown in deep soils, in which they attain a great height. 
When out of flower, like many other stately Perennials, they 
were often stiff and ugly in the old borders and beds. In the 
wild garden their stately beauty will be more remarkable 
than ever under the green leaves in copses and hy streams. 
And when flower-time is gone, their stems, no longer tied into 
bundles or cut in by the knife, will group finely with other 
vigorous herbaceous vegetation. 
The Delphiniums, or tall Perennial Larkspurs, are amongst 
the most beautiful of all flowers. They embrace almost every 
shade of blue, from the rich dark tone of D. grandiflora to the 
