. The wild garden, or the naturalization and natural grouping of hardy exotic plants with a chapter on the garden of British wild flowers. Gardens; Wild flowers. 38 The Wild Garden as the Christmas Rose, yet they are of remarkable beauty of fohage and habit as well as of blossom, and they flower in the spring. These, too, show the advantage of the wild garden as regards cultivation. They will do better in any bushy places, or copses, or in mutually sheltering groups on warm banks and slopes, even in hedge banks, old quarries, or rough mounds, than in the or- dinary garden border. Of the differ
. The wild garden, or the naturalization and natural grouping of hardy exotic plants with a chapter on the garden of British wild flowers. Gardens; Wild flowers. 38 The Wild Garden as the Christmas Rose, yet they are of remarkable beauty of fohage and habit as well as of blossom, and they flower in the spring. These, too, show the advantage of the wild garden as regards cultivation. They will do better in any bushy places, or copses, or in mutually sheltering groups on warm banks and slopes, even in hedge banks, old quarries, or rough mounds, than in the or- dinary garden border. Of the difference in the effect in the two cases it is need- less to speak. Some of the Monkshoods are. THE GREEN HELLEBORE in the Wild Garden. handsome, but they are virulent_pQisonsj and, bearing in mind what fatal accidents have arisen from their use, they are better not used at all in the garden proper. Amongst tall and vigorous herbaceous plants few are more suitable for rough places. They are robust enough to grow any- where in jhady^iJialf^^idysEots; and their tall spikes of blue flowers are very beautiful. An illustration in the chapter on the plants suited for the wild garden shows the common Aconite in a Somersetshire valley in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, J. Murray
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