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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 plant mostly 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 the beautiful hardy flowers of the world have been grown in gardens hitherto, when grown at all. (Sketched in a large garden, 1878) | 5 |
| Blue flowered Composite plant; fine foliage and habit; type of noble plants excluded from Gardens. (Mulgedium Plumieri) | 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 Wild Garden.—The Bell–flowered Scilla, naturalised with our own 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 nobler Northern 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 open soil 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, with annual 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. montana grandiflora) | 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 growing woody 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, established in shrubbery, with white Harebells here and there | 51 |
| Large White Achilleas spread into wide masses under shade of trees in shrubbery | 53 |
| Lilies coming up through carpet of White Arabis | 56 |
| Colony of Narcissus in properly spaced shrubbery | THE WILD GARDEN. ONE WAY ONWARDS FROM THE DARK AGES OF FLOWER–GARDENING.
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