Faults in Gardening 



surrounded with unpleasant associations, 

 but at any rate you learn to see it 

 without interest, and that is very mis- 

 chievous. The consequence is that, 

 generally speaking, we should either ex- 

 clude these common native plants from 

 the garden, or so alter them by cultiva- 

 tion that they shall seem like a different 

 thing. The Double Buttercup (Bachelors 

 Buttons) is a common country example 

 of the way in which they may be so 

 altered, and the Garden Daisies and 

 Polyanthuses are still better examples, 

 being more completely metamorphosed. 



Now this argument will generally tell 

 most with respect to those native flowers 

 which are less conspicuous, less remark- 

 able for brilliancy and other garden- 

 needed qualities. Thus the Bluebell and 

 Forget-me-not lose infinitely more in 

 the garden than the Globe Flower and 

 the Columbine. Yet this is not all, as the 

 Foxglove shows us ; there are the local 

 associations, though these are actually 

 very much more valuable in some plants 

 than in others. When we see it in the 

 garden we can scarcely appreciate the 

 Foxglove — that glorious link betwixt the 

 heath, the wood, and the open meadow 

 — for want of the light grassed soil, 



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