WORTHY OF GENERAL CULTURE. 
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about a dozen years ago ; such as no one ever thought possible in a 
garden. In grass not mown at all we may ever enjoy many of the 
Lilies and all the lovelier and more stately bulbous flowers of the 
meadows and mountain lawns of Europe, Asia and America. 
On a stretch of good grass which need not be mown, and 
on fairly-good soil in any part of our country, beauty 
may be enjoyed such as hitherto only gladdened the 
heart of the rare wanderer on the high mountain 
lawns and copses in May when the earth's children 
laugh in multitude on their mother’s breast. 
All planting in the grass should be in natural 
groups or prettily-fringed colonies, growing to and 
fro as they like after planting. Lessons in this 
grouping are to be had in woods, copses and meadows 
by those who look about them as they go. At first 
many will find it difficult to get out of formal masses, 
but that might be got over by studying natural group¬ 
ings of wild flowers. Once established, the plants soon begin 
to group themselves in a way that leaves nothing to desire. 
The brookside offers opportunities to lovers of hardy flowers 
which few other situations can rival. Hitherto we have only 
in or near such places aquatic or bog plants ; but the improve¬ 
ments of brooksides will be most readily effected by planting the banks with 
hardy flowers, making it a wild garden in fact. A great number of our finest 
herbaceous plants, such as Irises, Canadense and Superbum Lilies thrive in the 
moist soil found in such positions ; numbers of hardy flowers, also, that do not in 
nature prefer such soil, would exist in perfect health in it. The plants, of 
course, should be such as would grow freely among grass and take care of 
themselves. If different types of vegetation were encouraged on each side of 
the water it would be all the better, and for this purpose we might use Day Lilies, Phloxes, Irises, especially the Ger¬ 
manic form, many of the Lilies, Golden Rods, Bell Flowers (Campanula), Tritomas, Yuccas, Ilardy Ferns, and a host of 
other fine things. 
IRIS AND OTHER HARDY PLANTS 
BY BROOKSIDE. 
TRITOMAS IN THE GRASS. 
