INFORMAL AND WILD GARDENING. 



plants will not be planted in chalky or limy soils. But speaking 

 generally, and following the year round, there will be amongst more or 

 less bulbous plants : — Winter Aconite (these not more than a foot back 

 from the paths), Snowdrops, Snowflakes, Crocuses, Daffodils, Liliums 

 crocettm, candidum, pardalinum in wet spots, and tigrinum, Camassia 

 esculenta, Fritillarias, Cypripedium Calceolus and C. speciosum in damp 

 spots, Colchicums, Crocus speciosus, yellow Water Iris in wet spots, 

 Iris sihirica, Crinum capense. 



" Amongst flowering plants : — Trollius, Caltha palustris, Lady's 

 Smock, Lady's Mantle, Forget-me-not in wet spots, all British Orchids, 

 all British Heaths (unless on chalk), Wild Scabious, Wild Centaurea, 

 Blue Alkanet, Viper's Bugloss, Helianthemums, Salvia pratensis and 

 its allies, Verbascums of all sorts and kinds, Foxgloves in half shade, 

 Purple Loosestrife, Yellow Loosestrife, Spiraeas, Campanula Trachelium 

 Ragwort, Golden Rod, Michaelmas Dais'es, Ox-eye Daisies, large 

 white Autumn Daisies, Campanula rotundifolia, Inula ensifolia, Centau- 

 rea macrocarpa, Marjoram, Cramhe cordifolia, Mallow (pink and white), 

 St. John's Wort of all sorts. Toad Flaxes, Monk's-hood, Polygonums, 

 Senecio in var., Solomon's Seal, Teasels, Geraniums, Geums, Anemone 

 Pulsatilla, Rest-harrow, Betony, Aquilegias, Epilobiums, Chrysan- 

 themum uliginosum, Phyteuma orhiculare, Sec, &c. 



" Amongst flowering trees and shrubs : — Laburnum, Almonds 

 (pink and white). Lilac (only singles). Hawthorns (use the coloured ones 

 very sparingly), Cistus of all sorts, Cytisus of sorts, Double Gorse (not 

 single, it sows itself all over the place, and is not half so beautiful a 

 plant, in or out of flower, as the double) , single and semi-double and all 

 Wichuraiana Roses (but none of the show Roses), Guelder Roses, 

 Forsythia suspensa, Double Cherries, Osmanthus, Hollies, Tree Ivies, 

 Bamboos, Magnolias, Spindle-wood, Flowering Raspberries, Spartium 

 Junceum, Cydonia, Rhododendrons (but use the red ones very sparingly), 

 Azaleas, Pernettyas, Stuartia Pseudo-camellia, Berberis of all sorts, 

 Lavender, Rosemary, Potentilla (shrubby), Rihes sanguineum, Way- 

 faring Tree, Veronicas, Bog Myrtle in wet places. 



" In the Copse or thin Woodland. — Encourage Ivy and Moss to grow 

 over the whole of the surface wherever either will do so. 



" Plants for Woodland. — Snowdrops, Anemone blanda, A, ranuncu- 

 loides,A . apennina,Q.nd all varieties of yl . nemorosa — such disRobinsoniana, 

 Alleni, &c. ; Scilla nutans and S. n. alba; all the Hardy Cyclamen, par- 

 ticularly neapolitanum ; Trillium grandiflorum, Primroses (yellow and 

 white, not coloured). Campanula latifolia andC. I. alba, Narcissus cycla- 

 mineus and AT", triandrus ,Chionodoxa sardensis, Dog' s-toothViolets, white 

 Wood Violets, Helleborus foetidus, Wood Sorrel (white and pink) , and Ferns 

 in abundance (the wild British are by far the best, and the curious 

 crested and other forms should be used most sparingly, not more than 

 I in 25), such as Lastrea dilatata, L. Filix mas, Athyrium Filix foemina, 

 Vo\ysX\chums aculeatum, angular e, and munitum (which is Canadian), 

 Scolopendrium vulgar e, Polypodiums vulgare, Dryopteris, dind Phegopteris 

 (both the latter in rather damp spots), Osmunda in wet places. There 



