LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Colonies of Poet’s Narcissus and Broad–leaved Saxifrage, etc.
[Frontispiece]
Columbine and Geraniums in meadow–grass[v]
Large flowered Meadow Rue in the Wild Garden, type of plantmostly excluded from the Garden[1]
Night effect of large evening Primrose in the Wild Garden
(Œnothera Lamarkiana)
To face page [4]
A “mixed border” with tile edging, the way in which thebeautiful hardy flowers of the world have been grown ingardens hitherto, when grown at all. (Sketched in a largegarden, 1878)[5]
Blue flowered Composite plant; fine foliage and habit; typeof noble plants excluded from Gardens. (MulgediumPlumieri)[6]
Wood Anemone[8]
Caucasian Comfrey in shrubbery[9]
The Cretan Borage (Borago cretica)[12]
Flowers of Geneva Bugle (Ajuga genevensis), Dwarf Boragewort[14]
Star of Bethlehem in Grass[15]
The association of exotic and British wild flowers in the WildGarden.—The Bell–flowered Scilla, naturalised with ourown Wood Hyacinth[16]
The Turk’s Cap Lily, naturalised in the grass by wood–walk[19]
Crocuses in turf, in grove of Summer leafing trees[20]
Group of Globe flowers (Trollius) in marshy place; type of the noblerNorthern flowers little cultivated in gardens[21]
The Mountain Clematis (C. montana)[22]
The White Japan Anemone in the Wild Garden[23]
Anemones in the Riviera. Thrive equally well in any opensoil here, only flowering later
To face page [24]
The Green Hellebore in the Wild Garden[26]
Tall perennial Larkspurs, naturalised in Shrubbery (1878)[28]
Double Crimson Pæonies in grass[30]
Eupatorium purpureum[32]
The Giant Scabious (8 feet high). (Cephalaria procera)[32]
Giant Cow parsnip. Type of Great Siberian herbaceous vegetation.For rough places only[35]
Foliage of Dipsacus, on hedge–bank in spring[36]
The large white Bindweed, type of nobler climbing plants, withannual stems. For copses, hedgerows, and shrubberies[39]
The Nootka Bramble; type of free–growing flowering shrub.For copses and woods[40]
The Yellow Allium (A. Moly) naturalised[42]
Periploca græca (climber)[43]
Large White Clematis on Yew tree at Great Tew. (C. montanagrandiflora)[45]
The way the climbing plants of the world are crucified in
gardens—winter effect (a faithful sketch)		[45]
Climbing shrub (Celastrus), isolated on the grass; way of growingwoody Climbers away from walls or other supports[47]
A Liane in the North. Aristolochia and Deciduous Cypress[48]
A beautiful accident.—A colony of Myrrhis odorata, establishedin shrubbery, with white Harebells here and there[51]
Large White Achilleas spread into wide masses under shade oftrees in shrubbery[53]
Lilies coming up through carpet of White Arabis[56]
Colony of Narcissus in properly spaced shrubbery[57]
The American White Wood–Lily (Trillium grandiflorum) in
Wild Garden, in wood bottom in leaf–mould
To face page [58]
The Lily of the Valley in a copse[63]
Solomon’s Seal and Herb Paris, in copse by streamlet[67]
Colony of hardy exotic Flowers, naturalised by brook–side[70]
Valley in Somersetshire, with Narcissi, Marsh Marigolds, andPrimroses
To face page [70]
Cyperus longus[73]
The Cape Pond Weed in an English ditch in winter[75]
Day Lily by margin of water[76]
Marsh Marigold and Iris in early spring[78]
The same spot as in previous sketch, with aftergrowth of Iris,Meadow Sweet, and Bindweed[79]
Partridge Berry (Gaultheria)[80]
Wild Rose growing on a Pollard Ash in Orchardleigh Park,Somerset[83]
White Climbing Rose scrambling over old Catalpa Tree
To face page [84]
Climbing Rose isolated on grass[87]
Arenaria balearica, in a hole in wall at Great Tew[88]
Cheddar Pink, Saxifrage, and Ferns, on cottage wall at Mells[89]
The Yellow Fumitory on wall (Corydalis lutea)[91]
Large Japan Sedum (S. spectabile) and Autumn Crocuses in theWild Garden[92]
Crane’s Bill, wild, in grass[94]
Large–leafed Saxifrage in the Wild Garden[95]
Tiger Lilies in Wild Garden at Great Tew
To face page [98]
Large–flowered Clematis[102]
Sun Roses (Cistus) and other exotic hardy plants among heather,on sandy slope
To face page [104]
Wood and herbaceous Meadow–sweets grouped together in Mr.Hewittson’s garden[105]
Woodruff and Ivy[108]
Tailpiece[110]
Dug and mutilated Shrubbery in St. James’s Park. Sketched inwinter of 1879[111]
Colony of the Snowdrop–Anemone in Shrubbery not dug.Anemone taking the place of weeds or bare earth[115]
Colony of the Summer Snowflake, on margin of shrubbery[119]
The Monkshood, naturalised by wet ditch in wood[121]
The white Narcissus–like Allium, in the orchards of Provence;type of family receiving little place in gardens which maybe beautiful for a season in wild places[123]
The Alpine Windflower (Anemone alpina)[124]
Siberian Columbine in rocky place[126]
Tall Asphodel in copse[127]
The foliage of the Meadow Saffron in Spring[132]
The White–flowered European Clematis (C. erecta)[133]
Cyclamens in the Wild Garden; from nature[134]
A South European Bindweed creeping up the stems of an Irisin an English garden[135]
A Sea Holly; Eryngium[138]
Groups of Funkia Sieboldi[140]
A hardy Geranium[141]
Snowdrops, wild, by streamlet in valley[142]
Sun Rose on limestone rocks[144]
White Lily in Wild Garden[146]
Everlasting Pea, creeping up stem in shrubbery[148]
Type of fine–leaved umbellate plants seldom grown in gardens[149]
The Bee Balm, Monarda. American wood plant[150]
The Great Japan Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum). (Showingthe plant in flower)[152]
Phlomis. Type of handsome Labiates; admirably suited for
the Wild Garden		[153]
The tall Ox–eye daisy (Pyrethrum serotinum)[154]
The Great Reed of Southern Europe (Arundo Donax)[155]
Telekia. Type of the Larger Composites, excluded from gardensproper[159]
Group of Tritoma, in grass[160]
A tall Mullein[161]
Ophrys in grass[163]
Rock steps with Omphalodes[175]
Butterbur and Double Furze on margin of lake[176]

THE WILD GARDEN.

ONE WAY ONWARDS FROM THE DARK AGES OF FLOWER–GARDENING.