WILD GARDENS AND NATURALIZING 
The Rosy Trailing 
SOAPWORT 
The little picture shows a pretty 
drooping plant for rocky hillsides 
in the Wild Garden — Saponaria 
ocymoides. Its hahit and its re- 
quirements especially adapt it for 
rough situations in dry soil, where 
the prostrate stems cover the faces 
of rocks and become entirely hid- 
den with masses of rosy flowers 
during early summer. 
Wild Garden 
Orchids 
Meadow Saffron 
Among autumn- 
flowering bulbous 
plants adapted to Na- 
ture’s Garden, none 
are more effective 
than the " Autumn 
Crocus,” or Colchi- 
cums, shown above. 
They form very large 
colonies in a few 
years and produce an 
abundance of flowers, 
mostly of a rosy, 
pink color, though 
there are other- tints 
and some prettily 
checkered. 
A fine mass of 
Cypripedium specta- 
bile, popularly known 
as Moccasin Flower, 
Lady’s Slipper, etc., 
is shown in the cen- 
tral engraving. These 
hardy native plants 
revel in deep, moist 
soil, forming with age 
large clumps. The 
flowers are large and 
pouch-like, of rose and 
white with white 
pennants. There are 
also several other va- 
rieties of hardy Cypri- 
pediums suitable for 
naturalizing, notably a 
pink, a yellow and a 
white. 
