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in shade, and as one comes downward the right hand 

 slope gets a good deal of sun from noon to the middle 

 of the afternoon. The one on the left is nearly all 

 in shadow, so that for such plants as do best entirely 

 screened from the sun, a suitable place can easily be 

 chosen or arranged. It would be important, in order 

 to preserve a certain unity of effect throughout the 

 whole valley, that there should be a general ground- 

 work of certain plants from end to end. If it were a 

 place of sand and peat, these plants should be the 

 three common wild Heaths, Whortleberry, Gaultheria 

 Shallon, and the Bog-Myrtles. Between and under 

 these should be long stretches of common Mosses and 

 Mossy Saxifrages. 



I would have everything planted in longish drifts, 

 and above all things it should be planted geologically ; 

 the length of the drift going with the natural stratifi- 

 cation. In all free or half-wild garden planting, good 

 and distinct effect (though apparent and enjoyable to 

 every beholder, even though he may not perceive why 

 it is right and good) is seldom planned or planted 

 except by the garden artist who understands what is 

 technically known as " drawing." But by planting 

 with the natural lines of stratification we have only 

 to follow the splendid drawing of Nature herself, and 

 the picture cannot fail to come right. 



In the planting of my little valley I should be 

 inclined to leave out some of the best-known moun- 

 tain plants such as Arabis, Aubrietia, Alyssum, and 



