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adorns our woods and heaths, and its 

 white form — an elegant plant. In any 

 warm soil these are a pest, but in the 

 summer wild garden they are beautiful 

 and quite in place. With them may be 

 grouped the best of the Golden Rods 

 \S0ltdag6)) which are rubbishy for a gar- 

 den, yet, if put in rough places, are very 

 good for a time. 



Among the prettiest plants I have 

 seen wild is the Red Bergamot of Cana- 

 dian woods. It is quite hardy with us, 

 and there is no reason why it should not 

 take its place in the summer wild garden, 

 as it is fine in colour, fragrant, and free 

 upon warm soil , or , indeed , upon al most 

 any. The tall Phloxes, too, may well 

 take their place in the moister part of 

 such a garden, and in places where the 

 soil is naturally dry they would give later 

 bloom than where fully exposed in the 

 flower-garden. I have tried these plants 

 and have been surprised to see howwell 

 they do in woody places in moist soils, 

 and hold their place among native wood 

 plants. The same applies to the Globe 

 Thistle, a vigorous and distinct plant. 

 Coming now to the great family of As- 

 ters, the taller kinds are excellent for this 

 kind of work, especially the one called 

 puniceus, which I have grown much 

 and find its large blue flowers extreme- 

 ly effective in autumn, thriving very 

 well near water, in shade, or half-shade: 

 there are many other good stout Asters. 

 Much also may be done with plants of 

 vigorous habit like the Pa?onias, for in 

 planting in such conditions we may 

 secure a later bloom, and as they often 

 increase rapidly in the garden we may 

 well have a group of them upon grass 



in such a place. Very favourite plants 

 of mine, with great vigour in places they 

 take to, are varieties of the Everlasting 

 Pea [Lathy r us latifolius) , hardy and of 

 great beauty, especially in the newer 

 shades. These might be placed so as to 

 run through bushes. This brings us to 

 the fact that such positions may occa- 

 sionally include shrubs also, especially 

 the late blooming Wild Roses, like the 

 American Wild Roses which come in 

 so well after the European kinds are 

 past. The Sweet Alders (Clethra) are 

 nice shrubs, flowering in summer and 

 autumn, and fond of moist places. The 

 shrubby Meadowsweets (Spireas) are 

 good, and perhaps the best among the 

 late ones is S. aricefolia. Among the 

 shrubs there is an opportunity for scat- 

 tering graceful trailers, of which there 

 is no lack. One of the best of these is 

 the Traveller's Joy [Clematis viticelld), 

 which I make rampant in hedgerows, 

 and comes quite freely from seed. 

 Honeysuckles of various kinds and the 

 White Mountain Clematis [C. montana) 

 also come in well. The cheaper Lilies, 

 such as the great Tiger Lily and the 

 American Swamp Lily , do well in certain 

 soils and give splendid colour. In dis- 

 tricts where native Ferns abound they 

 maybe used to give fresh and cool effects, 

 and by bog or streamlet the Royal Fern 

 [Osmundd) is always charming. The 

 great Oriental Poppies grow anywhere 

 for those who care for colour, and the 

 Spireas love moist places, especially 

 " Goatsbeard " and aS". ve?tusta. For ram- 

 bling about brushwood and in rough 

 places the climbingKnotworts arepretty 

 and soon cover much space. — W. R. 



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