ESCAPED FROM GARDENS 



purplish green flowers and slender spines, shot out a 

 few branches, the larger ones some twenty feet or 

 more, climbing over the back of the chimney and 

 falling in festoons to the ground. This vine belongs 

 to the Potato family, and may be often seen in wholly 

 wild places, as well as near old gardens, sprawling 

 over bank walls and when out of bloom showing 

 oval green or deep red berries akin to those of its 

 wild cousin, the Climbing Nightshade. 



The Tiger Lilies, as Time o' Year had said, 

 were lined along the fences and gathered in groups 

 among the stone heaps, while 

 the Blackberry Lilies, which are 

 really a species of Iris, covered 

 the slope back of the garden. 

 Such lavish and vivid color is 

 not often equaled in a garden, 

 for Lilies which, 

 from their stiff 

 growth, should be 

 urged to run riot 

 and break ranks, 

 when planted in 

 neat rows do not 

 fill the wild na- 

 ture - loving soul 



