102 THE WILD GARDEN. 
there through the trees and Grass, and well they look—better 
here among the Grass and flowers, partially shaded by trees, 
than in the hardy Fernery, which is so often a failure, and 
when a success, often “too much of a muchness,” so to say. 
The wild garden of the future will be also the true home of 
all the more important hardy Ferns. The rivals of the Ferns 
in beauty of foliage, the Ferulas, and various other um- 
belliferous plants with beautifully cut foliage, have also their 
homes in the wild garden. The Welsh Poppy thrives, as 
might be expected, admirably in the grove, its rich yellow 
cups just showing above the meadow. 
In another part of the grounds there is a raised walk 
quite away from trees, open and dry, with sloping banks on 
each side. This may be called a sun-walk, and here quite a 
different type of vegetation is grown; Scotch Roses, Brooms, 
Sun Roses, Rock Roses, etc. It is quite recently formed, and 
will probably soon accommodate a more numerous and interest- 
ing flora. Such an open sunny walk, with dry banks near, is 
a capital position in which to carry out various phases of the 
wild garden. Peculiarly suitable, however, in such a position 
is a good illustration of the vegetation of the hot, rocky, and 
gravelly hill-sides of the Mediterranean region, and this is 
quite easily represented, for the various leguminous plants 
and dwarf Pea-flowered shrubs, such as the Spanish Broom, 
many of the beautiful Rock Roses (Cistus), the Sun Roses 
(Helianthemum), and the Lavenders, will, with a host of com- 
panions, for the most part thrive quite as well on a sunny 
sandy bank in England as in Italy or Greece. In the wild 
garden it is easy to arrange aspects of vegetation having a 
geographical interest, and a portion of such a sunny bank as 
