CHAPTER V. 
PLANTS CHIEFLY FITTED FOR THE WILD GARDEN. 
WHAT first suggested the idea of the wild 
garden, and even the name to me, 
was the desire to provide a home 
for a great number of exotic plants 
that are unfitted for garden culture 
in the old sense. Many of these 
plants have great beauty when in flower, 
and perhaps at other seasons, but they are 
frequently so free and vigorous in growth 
ihat they overrun and destroy all their more 
delicate neighbours. Many, too, are so coarse 
that they are objectionable in choice borders, 
and after flowering they leave a blank ora 
inass of unsightly stems. These plants are 
y unsightly in gardens, and the main cause of 
the eons of hardy flowers; yet many are beautiful at certain 
stages. A tall Harebell, for example, stiffly tied up in a 
garden border, as has been the fashion where plants of this 
kind have been grown at all, is at best of times an unsightly 
object; but the same plant growing amongst the long 
