A beautiful accident.—A colony of Myrrhis odorata, established in shrubbery, with 
white Harebells here and there. (See p. 60.) 
CHAPTER VIII. 
THE COMMON SHRUBBERY, WOODS AND WOODLAND DRIVES. 
Ir must not be thought that the wild garden can only be 
formed in places where there is some extent of rough pleasure- 
ground. Excellent results may be obtained from the system 
in comparatively small gardens, on the fringes of shrubberies 
and marginal plantations, open spaces between shrubs, the 
surface of beds of Rhododendrons, where we may have plant- 
beauty instead of garden-graveyards. I call garden-grave- 
yards the dug shrubbery borders which one sees in nearly all 
gardens, public or private. Every shrubbery and plantation 
surface that is so needlessly and relentlessly dug over by the 
gardener every winter, may be embellished in the way I 
propose, as well as wild places. The custom of digging 
shrubbery borders prevails now in every garden, and there is 
