38 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
striking sculpturing of mulleins, burdocks, and jimson-weed. 
Figures 27 to 31 will be suggestive. 
28. Funkia, or day-lily. Where lies the chief interest, —in the plant-form or 
in the bloom? 
Wild bushes are nearly always attractive in form and habit 
when planted in borders and groups. They improve 
in appearance under cultivation because they are 
29. A large-leaved nicotiana. 30. The awkward century plant 
: that has been laboriously car- 
given a better chance to grow. In ried over winter year by year 
wild nature there is such fierce strug- sen eyes ec ad : his 
gle for existence that plants usually its value as a lawn subject. 
