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can be no doubt in which position they would look best. But let us 
suppose for a moment that there was no other object for the wild 
garden in America than growing the many lovely wild flowers that 
inhabit the land, it is sufficient. Here some of your wildlings are the 
darlings of our rock-garden growers, though we are far from possessing 
all the bright flowers and graceful trailers that adorn the bogs and 
woods and heaths of the Eastern States. It would be most wise, in 
case of possessing a little bit of wood or copse, adorned naturally with 
the trailing Partridge Berry, and the rosy Lady’s Slipper (Cypripedium 
acaule), which I noticed growing so plentifully, to preserve the spot 
as a wild garden, and add tu it such home and foreign, free and 
handsome hardy plants, as one could obtain. 
It is impossible in this letter to speak of the various kinds of 
wild gardens, but the opportunity which the system offers for em- 
bellishing cool shady places is one which should make it interesting 
to the people to whose language belongs the term “ shade trees.” 
Usually flower beds and borders are in the full sun—a very proper 
arrangement in a cool country. But even in our climate, there are in 
the warm months many days in which the woodland shade is sought 
in preference to the open lawn, and when the fully-exposed garden is 
deserted. Therefore, it is clearly desirable that we have flowers in 
shady as well as sunny places. Many plants, too, love the shade, and 
we only require to plant the most suitable of these to enjoy a charm- 
ing wild garden. It need not be pointed ont to Americans that a vast 
number of herbaceous plants naturally inhalit woods. In America, 
where shade is such a necessity, the wild garden in the shade will be 
the most delightful retreat near the country house. Init many of the 
plants common in the gardens of all northern countries will, without 
wearisome attention, flower in the spring. 
For the early summer months flowers of a somewhat later period 
will be selected, as, for example, the later Irises—lovely hardy flowers, 
the tall Asphodel A. ramosus, the Day Lilies (Hemerocallis), the 
Solomon’s Seal and some of its allies, the Veronicas, tall Phloxes, the 
great Scarlet Poppy (Papaver bracteatum), Symphytums in variety ;— 
these are all free-growing and admirable plants for the wild wood-garden. 
Mulleins (Verbascum), Salvias, Harebells (Campanula), Willow herbs, 
tall Lupines, Geraniums, Spurges, Meadow Rues, Columbines, Del- 
phiniums, and the latest wind flowers (Anemone). 
Later still, and in the sunny days, would come the various beauti- 
ful everlasting peas, various plants of the Mallow tribe, the Poke 
