104 THE WILD GARDEN, 
naturalised in the warm sandy soil were the Sun Roses, 
which are shown in the foreground of the plate. Here and 
there among the Heaths, creeping about in a perfectly 
natural-looking fashion, too, was the Gentian blue Gromwell 
(Lithospermum prostratum), with other hardy plants suited 
to the situation. Among these naturalised groups were the 
large Evening Primroses and Alstrcemeria aurea, the whole 
being well relieved by bold bushes of flowering shrubs, so 
tastefully grouped and arranged as not to show a trace of 
formality. Such plants as these are not set out singly and 
without preparation, but carefully planted in beds of such 
naturally irregular outline, that when the plants become 
established they seem native children of the soil, as much as 
the Bracken and Heath around. It is remarkable how all 
this is done without in the least detracting from the most 
perfect order and keeping. Closely-shaven glades and wide 
Grass belts wind about among such objects, while all trees 
that require special care and attention show by their health and 
size that they find all they require in this beautiful garden. 
It is more free from needless or offensive geometrical-twirling, 
barren expanse of gravelled surface, and all kinds of puerilities 
—old-fashioned and new-fangled—than any garden I have 
seen for years. 
The following, from a correspondent, shows what may be 
done with few advantages as to space or situation :— 
We have a dell with a small stream of spring water running 
through it. When I first came to Brockhurst I found this stream 
‘carried underground by a tile culvert, and the valley sides covered 
with Rhododendrons, the soil between carefully raked and kept free 
from weeds, so that it was only during springtime that flowers relieved 
the sombre effect of this primness. After five years this has all been 
