32 A Little Maryland Garden 
some customer having complained because 
some plants and bulbs he ordered turned out 
to be dogwood and superbum lilies, which 
grew wild near his home. According to his 
ideas, a rose by another name should have 
a different smell. Our old florist saw the 
wonderful possibilities of our native plants for 
garden flowers. 
Some wild flowers seem fitted to take their 
place among their long-cultivated relations 
just as they come from their haunts. But 
there are certain conditions that ought to 
obtain in a perfect garden flower, that a great 
many wild flowers do not fulfil. A plant for 
the garden should have graceful growth, 
admirable foliage, and a beautiful or inter- 
esting flower. Some flowers that have been 
long cultivated, fulfil the last condition, 
whose foliage would rank them among weeds, 
like the petunias. And some wild plants 
whose flowers are delightful, like the hardy 
asters, have the weed-like characteristic 
of greediness, and want to take up the whole 
border if they get a foothold in it. There 
