streaming away; but it may be easily shown by a diagram. Where 
there is a fair space, or nothing growing on the floor of the wood but 
its own thin grasses and mosses and other lowly plants, it has a good 
effect if the groups are in a series of nearly parallel drifts, preferably 
running north and south; for then in low evening sunlight, when 
yellow Daffodils look their best and the whole garden picture is 
mellowed with golden light, the level lines of nodding bloom are sur- 
prisingly beautiful. 
Where the trees give place to httle thickets of something between 
bush and small tree we plant in with it some rambling rose with single 
bloom — best of all the free growing EvangeKne, whose flowers are 
much like the wild Dog Rose in character, but are larger and of greater 
substance and borne in more generous clusters. It is a perfect Rose 
for the wild garden though the Himalayan Musk Rose (R. moschata) 
runs it very close. Other thickets would have Honeysuckle; such free 
growing kinds as what are known as the Early and Late Dutch 
Honeysuckle {Louicera Peridymenium Belgica and serotina) or some 
of the type Clematis such as Montana and Flammula or the wild Grape 
Vines Thunbergi and Coignetiae. The thickets themselves — ^in England 
usually of Whitethorn or Blackthorne,* with or without Holly, may 
be of any handsome fruiting bushes, such as Euonymus europaeus 
(Spindle Tree) the Siberian Crabs {Pyriis baccaia and P. prunifolia) 
the scarlet-fruited Thorn (Crataegus coccinia) and the Indian Coto- 
neaster frigida. Pretty small trees such as Amelanchier canadensis 
are also delightful things in the wild ground. 
The other path from the home garden that also leads to the wood- 
land passes first through ground where a natural growth of Birch 
and Holly comes next to the garden. The path lies in a sHght hollow 
with easy banks on each side and, here and there, a cool bay level with 
the path or even a little below it. On the banks are large groups of 
common hardy Ferns and there is a natural background of Bracken 
(Pteris aguilina) . The level and sunk bogs are deeply prepared with 
leaf mold; in one is the Wood Lily (Trillium), in another Bloodroot 
(Sanguinaria) and in the deepest and coolest the Royal Fern (Os- 
munda regalis). At the back there are wide-spreading patches of 
Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum officinale), a true wood plant, and, stand- 
ing up in the Bracken background, large groups of pure white Fox- 
glove. The walk goes gently uphill and presently comes to an open 
clearing some sixty feet across and a hundred and fifty long. The 
path now takes an easy winding line and here and there are the Azaleas. 
They are in sunlight more or less for the greater part of the day, but 
the surrounding trees shift the sunny places so that none are subject 
to a whole day's burning heat. They stand well apart, eight feet or 
*Crataegus oxyacantha and Prunus spinosa. 
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