28 THE WILD GARDEN. 
charming cerulean tints of such as D. Belladonna ; and being 
usually of a tall and strong type, will make way among long 
grasses and vigorous weeds, unlike many things for which we 
have to recommend an open space, or a wood with nothing 
but a carpet of moss under the trees. 
One of the prettiest effects which 
I have ever seen was a colony of tall 
Larkspurs. Portions of old roots of 
several species and varieties had been 
chopped off when a 
bed of these plants 
was dug in the autumn. 
For convenience sake 
the refuse had been 
thrown into the neigh- 
bouring shrubbery, far 
in among the shrubs 
and trees. Here they 
grew in _half-open 
aay’ oe spaces, which were so 
Tall Peveonial Lavkapurs, matoralied in ShosbberyGSr) pd pe the 
margin that they were not dug and were not seen. When I 
saw the Larkspurs in flower they were certainly the loveliest 
things that one could see. They were more beautiful than they 
are in borders or beds, not growing in such close stiff tufts, but 
mingling with and relieved by the trees above and the shrubs 
around. Little more need be said to any one who knows and 
cares about such plants, and has an opportunity of planting 
in such neglected places. This case points out that one might 
make wild gardens from the mere parings and thinnings of 
