CHAPTER VL. 
DITCHES AND NARROW SHADY LANES, COPSES, HEDGEROWS, 
AND THICKETS. 
MeN usually seek sunny positions for 
their gardens, so that even 
those obliged to be con- 
tented with the north side 
_. of the hill would scarcely 
appreciate some of the 
above-named positions. 
Hl. _ What, the gloomy and 
Foliage of Dipsacus, on hedge-bank in spring. 
weedy dyke as a garden! 
Yes, there are ditches, dry 
- and wet, in every district, 
that may readily be made 
more beautiful than many 
a “ modern flower-garden.” 
But what would grow in 
them? Many of the beautiful wood and shade-loving plants 
of our own and similar latitudes—things that love not the 
open sunny hillsides or wide meadows, but take shelter in the 
stillness of deep woods or in dark valleys, are happy deep 
