PLANTS FITTED FOR THE 
grass in a thin wood is lovely. | 
The Golden-rods and Michaelmas 
Daisies used to overrun the old 
mixed border, and were with it 
abolished. But even the poorest of 
these seen together in a New England 
wood in autumn form a picture. So 
also there are numerous exotic plants 
of which the individual flowers may > 
not be so striking, but which, grown 
in groups and colonies, and seen at 
some little distance off, afford beauti- 
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ful aspects of vegetation, and quite |/\' 
new so far as gardens are concerned. <\ 
When I first wrote this book, not //* 
one of these plants was in cultiva- ~~ 
tion outside botanic gardens. It was | 
even considered by the best friends A 
of hardy flowers a mistake to recom- 
mend one of them, for they knew "a, 
that it was the predominance of these 
weedy vigorous subjects that made 
people give up hardy flowers for the 
sake of the glare of bedding plants; | 
therefore, the wild garden in the case 
of these particular plants opens up to 
us a new world of infinite and strange 
beauty. In it every plant vigorous 
enough not to require the care of the ©” 
cultivator or a choice place in the 
D 
The Giant Scabious (8 feet high). 
(Cephalaria procera.) 
