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places their bloom will not be so enduring as in the wood. 
A curious instance of the advantage of planting in a wood is 
at Bodorgan in Anglesey, where a much later bloom was 
gathered off a colony of the popular Hoteia japonica, owing 
to planting it in a cool wood. A little woodland planting 
may indeed be worth doing for the sake of a prolonged or 
later bloom, even from plants that thrive in sunny places. 
THE ORCHARD WILD GARDEN. 
Although three years have elapsed since the illustrations 
of this book were commenced, I regret to issue it without a 
satisfactory one showing the beauty which may be obtained 
in the orchard from flowers in the grass or fences around. 
In our orchard counties—pity it is that all our counties are 
not worthy of the name within the possibilities of their 
position and climate—one may now and then see a cloud of 
Daffodils or a tuft of Summer Snowflake, enough to suggest 
what happy places they would be for many bulbous flowers 
in the grass. 
A WILD ORCHARD. 
A correspondent of the “ Garden” writes :— 
After reading in the “Garden” of November 16, about the Bullace 
there named, and the Cranberries, the idea struck me of adding unto 
our Orchard in Sussex “ a wild Orchard,” with fruit trees such as follows, 
viz.— Quince, Medlar, Mulberry, Bullace, Crab, Pyrus Maulei, Bar- 
berries, Blackberries (the large kinds for preserving), Filberts, and in a 
suitable place, Cranberries. All these, besides the interest of cultivating 
them, would yield fruit for preserving, etc. For instance, we have old- 
fashioned receipts for making an excellent Bullace cheese, Crab jelly, 
Quince jelly, etc. I venture to trouble you with a view to asking if 
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