90 A Little Maryland Garden 
gardener, but please what I may call the 
laity, people who care nothing for gardening 
in itself. 
Bulbs must be allowed to ripen their 
foliage and die down gradually, if they are to 
bloom another year. And while I believe 
no harm is done if they are taken up and put 
into temporary quarters to accomplish this, 
yet to me it is contrary to the spirit of a gar- 
denlike mine. It is not reposeful, and isa tax 
on a busy person’s time. The garden should 
have permanency, the flowers should spring 
undisturbed year after year in the same places. 
This is the special charm of the quaint bits 
of garden one sees from the flagged pave- 
ments of quiet village streets in this part of 
the world. The old-fashioned flowers have 
the same security of long possession as the 
dwellers in the old houses. One knows 
that from colonial days the care of the flowers 
has been handed down from mother to 
daughter, new generations of flowers and 
human beings springing in the same spot. 
And if the houses have something of a look 
