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embellishment in one way at a season when there is a great 
blank in many gardens—the time of “bedding out.” The 
maker of this had no favourable or inviting site with 
which to deal; no great variety of surface, which makes 
attempts in this direction so much easier and happier; no 
variety of soil, which might enable plants of widely different 
natural habitats to be grown; only a neglected plantation, 
with rather a poor gravelly soil and a gentle slope in one 
part, and little variety of surface beyond a few gravel banks 
thrown up long before. The garden is, for the most part, 
arranged on each side of a Grass drive among rather open 
ground, few trees on the one hand and rather shady ground 
on the other. The most beautiful aspect at the end of May 
of a singularly ungenial spring, which had not allowed the 
Peonies to unfold, was that of the German Irises, with 
their great Orchid-like blossoms seen everywhere through 
the wood, clear above the Grass and other herbage, stately 
and noble flowers that, like the Daffodils, fear no weather, 
yet with rich and delicate hues that could not be surpassed 
by tropical flowers. If this wild garden only should teach 
this effective way of using the various beautiful and vigorous 
kinds of Iris now included in our garden flora, it would do 
good service. The Trises are perfectly at home in the wood 
and among the Grass and wild flowers. By-and-by, when 
they go out of flower, they will not be in the way as in a 
“ mixed border,” tempting one to remove them, but grow and 
rest quietly among the grass until the varied blossoms of 
another year again repay the trouble of substituting these 
noble hardy flowers for some of the familiar weeds and wild 
plants that inhabit our plantations. 
