Large Japan Sedum (S. spectabile) and Autumn Crocuses in the Wild Garden. 
CHAPTER XIL 
SOME RESULTS. 
In addition to Longleat, and other cases previously men- 
tioned, a few of the results obtained, where the system 
was tried, and so far as known to me, may not be without 
interest. How much a wild garden intelligently and taste- 
fully carried out may effect for a country seat is fairly 
well shown in a garden in Oxfordshire. Here is one of 
the earliest, and probably one of the largest wild gardens 
existing, and which, visiting it on the 27th May, I found 
full of novel charms. No old-fashioned garden yields its 
beauty so early in the year, or over a more prolonged season, 
than the wild garden, as there is abundant evidence here ; 
but our impressions shall be those of the day only. It 
may serve to throw light on the possibilities of garden 
