Faults in Gardening 



close affinity to our own, so as to be 

 adapted to our climate and to be pretty- 

 thoroughly intelligible to us, but yet let 

 them, as far as possible, be of different, 

 dissimilar, and more splendid species. 

 Such species are more attractive in them- 

 selves, and lose least by being stripped of 

 their natural surroundings. It may be 

 necessary to remind the reader that Globe 

 Flowers, Jacob's Ladder, Columbine, and 

 many other of our most valuable garden 

 plants are native species ; but they are 

 very locally distributed in Britain. If 

 commoner, though we should still employ 

 them, their value would be injuriously 

 diminished. Still not unfrequently a com- 

 mon plant, like the Primrose, will be 

 found to do good service. 



Note 9 



Solon declared that to be the best of 

 governments in which an injury done to 

 the meanest subject is an insult to the 

 whole community. Now this is pretty 

 much the law of a garden. Nothing is 

 more objectionable than the manner in 

 which the common plants are often treated 

 to make way for the grandees. Bulbs 

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