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ESCAPED FROM GARDENS 



are winged, hooked, or otherwise tenacious. Wash- 

 outs, sidehill slides of earth, and streams carry the 

 heavier seeds; then, too, many plants have several 

 ways of spreading, both by seed, by 

 running roots, like Bouncing Betsy 

 and the Lilacs, or by rooting branches, 

 like heedless Moneywort. 



All along the way we met single 

 stalks of Tiger Lilies by the fences, 

 and here and there bands of frail Red 

 Day Lilies. One clump found lodg- 

 ment in the corner of a thick 

 stone wall, as if in an urn, 

 though the house behind the 

 wall was distinctly new, and all 

 the other fencing was of pickets. 

 Not far from this we came upon 

 a tangle of the thorny -bushed little Cinnamon 

 Rose, which is of transient color and faint fra- 

 grance, but always found growing with yellow briar 

 roses in old gardens. 



A great stone chimney then loomed up, sheltered 

 by Privet Bushes in full flower. Prickly Ash, min- 

 gled with a few half -dead Box Bushes, outlined a 

 moss-grown flagged path; but no Tiger Lilies. The 

 stones were covered by the scalloped leaves of Creep- 



