WILD FLOWER GARDENS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF TECH ..arcorATorel Sin,—Your contributor who writes so charmingly regarding "Wild Flower Gardens" in your issue of April 27th well describes such gardens,—" not made by man, but by the genius of the place." May I be allowed to add another instance of a spot where Nature sets so splendid a profusion of blossom and colour, and this not in the sheltered and clothed corner of the South of England, but on one of the otherwise bleak and wind-swept regions,—the East Coast of Scotland ? Blue skies are overhead, where out of sight the larks are singing, the sea beneath, on whose crested waves fishing-boats with picturesque brown sails are floating. The boundaries of this Naturegarden are the coasts, and the tall bents, growing on the edge of those links untrampled as yet by golfers. Here in the hollows Nature has lavishly planted covrslips in such 'Marvellous numbers that in May and Jane the effect of gold is seen from far and near. Purple patches also appear which a closer acquaintance shows to be dog-violets and the common kind of bugloss. When these have passed with summer days, mauve scabious and yellow ragweed do their part. And, lastly, there appears the common bracken fern. Here is Been in October perhaps the most gorgeous display of all when the first frosts of autumn touch the earth, even on the links, as on the more
lofty heights and wooded inlands "Autumn departs Beneath a shroud of russet, dropped with gold."—I am,
Sir, &c., S. M. S. M.
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