The whole place—mound and pit and even garden—is an untidy
mess just at present, but Sir Arthur Evans certainly had, and has the vision splendid, not in one direction but in many. The garden will be a representation of a number of the rarer and more lovely British wild flowers. We want flower sanctuaries—as suggested last week—but there is place also for a more artificial collection of wild flowers, and both nature and art have supplied the crown of Boars Hill with a rich variety of soil thatinay provide a great number of British plants with their optimum. The flower of this moment of flaming June is the wild rose ; and the dog and field roses are blossoming profusely on Jam Hill. Would it not be a good plan to make a little collection of all English wild roses ? I looked in vain for the' loveliest and sweetest of them all, the Burnet rose, one of the few sand-lovers of its tribe. What an interesting patch a collection 'a wild orchises would make ! and both the bee and the butterfly, though not the rarest, begin to vanish from many old haunts.
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