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changed into what I think you would call a wild garden, and we 
have cheerfulness and heauty all the year round. 
In the first place the brooklet was brought to the surface, and its 
course fringed with marsh plants, such as Marsh Marigolds, Forget- 
me-nots, Celandines, Irises, Primroses, and Ranuneuluses, together 
with Osmundas, Hart’s-tongues, and other Ferns. Many large-growing 
Carexes and ornamental Rushes are also here. Little flats were formed 
Wood and herbaceous Meadow-sweets grouped together in Mr. Hewittson’s garden. 
and filled with peat, in which Cypripediums, Trilliums, Orchises, 
Solomon’s Seal, and many rare bog plants find a home. In the valley 
we have planted bulbs by thousands—Crocuses, Snowdrops, Daffodils, 
Narcissi, ete. The Rhododendrons were thinned and interspersed with 
Azaleas, Aucubas, and other handsome-foliaged shrubs, to give bright- 
ness to the spring flowering, and rich colour to the foliage in autumn. 
In the spaces between we introduced wild Hyacinths everywhere, and 
