158 H. <KA OF WIMftBBHIBI COUNTY. 



tmdfewaii and flavido), Jacob's ladder [Polemonium), may 



apple (I'odopliiilliiiu ). white snake-rool {Eupatorium 

 oides) and a golden r.>d (Solidogo uimifolio). 



7. 8hadi d /•"- fcy '"'/"' j. \l"-t of the species in the preceding 

 group may be include- 1 here, with the following additional 

 species: the early wake-robin [TrM ■ ), nodding wild 

 onion (Allium cernwm), both species of BicucvUa, American 

 vetch {Vicia), blood-rool {Sanguinaria), water-leaf [B 

 phyllum virginicum) and the heart-leaved aster [A. cordij< 



The species of the following group may also be planted with the 

 foregoing. 



8. Rocky fernery. Well shaded heaps or I lime- 

 stone, with scant soil intermingled, will produce very pleasing 

 effects. While many of the plants of the two preceding groups 

 may be used in snch places, the following are especially suit- 

 able : the bulb-bearing fern ( ( 'ystopteris btUbift ra) t bishop's cap 

 (M it'll, I) and wild columbine (Aguilegia). 



&J3 all the plants here listed as suitable for cultivation are 

 pere inlal, with persisting roots or underground stems, it is 

 possible to transplant them from their native habitats. This 

 should be done early in the spring before growth has advanced. 

 or after the plant has matured it- fruit. Seed should also be 

 collected, and sowed freely in suitable places. This may be 

 done immediately upon the maturing of the seed, or the seed may 

 lit- kept until spring. Where the fruit (or seed) is dry it may 

 simply he kept in a box or paper in a moderately dry cool place. 

 Where the fruit is pulpy it may be set in a cool cellar in a small 

 bos of sand, which must be kept barely moist, and in the spring 

 sand and seed may be scattered However, in most of these 

 cases it will require at leasl two years to mature the plant. 

 Usually s combination of the two methods, transplanting and 

 j. will give the best results. In the case of all plants 

 which require shade, Leaf-mould should be liberally supplied. 



and in all cases Borne attention must be given to w Is, as they 



will otherwise over run the wild-flower bed. Blue grass is per- 

 haps the mosl dangerous of these weed-, and is fatal to practic- 

 ally all wild flov. 



