. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. WILD fJARDEN WILD GARDEN 1977 plenty of kind and to all persons who dengrht in making nature-like pictures witli the h<'lp ol' plants. It may also be in keeping in many small and humble areas. -^ The plants in a wild garden require less care than those -^''^,-^~ cultivated according to any other system. The
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. WILD fJARDEN WILD GARDEN 1977 plenty of kind and to all persons who dengrht in making nature-like pictures witli the h<'lp ol' plants. It may also be in keeping in many small and humble areas. -^ The plants in a wild garden require less care than those -^''^,-^~ cultivated according to any other system. The main ^" work is that of establishing the plants. If they are the right kind they will soon become colonies. All that re- mains to do is to remove brambles, thistles and other uncomfortable weeds and occasionally check the exuber- ance of the too vigorous species. On the other hand, w^ild gardening demands the highest intelligence and taste, close sympathy with nature, and that rare and precious quality —enjoyment of common and every-day things. There is no finer feature of autumn landscape in America (so far as herbaceous growth is concerned) than the roadside asters and goldenrods. Yet when William Robinson conceived the idea of wild gardening, these lovely flowers were banished from the English hardy borders. In such an environment they waxed too strong and crowded out many slender-habited plants of delicate beauty. It seemed a pity to exclude these American plants from English estates. The important question was to find a proper environment for them. In the wild garden such plants require less care than in the hardy border, and they present nature-like effects, and are in place. Asters and goldenrods are only two examples of the class of plants for which the wild garden was created. There are literally thousands of hardy plants from all over the world that will take care of themselves when once established in wild gardens. Many of these plants are unfit for intensive
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