62 THE WILD GARDEN. 
may secure several important ends—distinct effects in different 
places, a variety as we walk along, and better means of meeting 
the wants of a plant, inasmuch as, dealing with a group, or 
mass, or carpet, we can best observe the result of our judgment 
in putting them in any soil or place. Therefore, although the 
quantity of vigorous hardy flowers essential for making good 
effects in a place of this size has not yet been planted out, 
some very charming effects have been, obtained. Among the 
features that Mr. Berry is working to introduce are vigorous 
hardy exotic creepers on old and inferior trees, Thorn, and 
other bushes of little value. Many are already planted, but 
will be some time before they show their full beauty—among 
them Japanese and other Honeysuckles, Virginian Creepers, 
Clematis, Wistarias, and others. A part of the arboretum is 
more particularly devoted to this kind of decoration, and will 
eventually form a very wild wood and wild garden, where 
the Poet’s Narcissus may be found among Sweet Briers, Lilacs, 
and many kinds of fragrant- flowering shrubs and vigorous 
perennials. While carrying out the scheme of wild gardening, 
pure and simple, that is to say, the naturalisation of foreign 
hardy plants, opportunity has been taken to establish beautiful 
native kinds where they do not happen to be present in suffi- 
cient abundance. Thus the Lily of the Valley has been 
brought in quantities and planted in wide-spreading colonies 
along the drives, and so have the Meadow Saffron and the 
Snowflakes and Daffodils. To group and scatter these in a 
natural and easy way has required considerable care, the 
tendency of the men being invariably, and almost in spite 
of themselves, to plant in stiff and set or too regular masses. 
Few things are more delightful to anybody who cares 
