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which he mentions were brought in from the wild and 

 cultivated here as soon certainly as they were sent to 

 old-world gardens. They might have reached there 

 as botanical specimens of interest, long before they 

 were deemed worthy a place in the garden, to be sure; 

 but his is not a botanical enumeration. It is instead 

 essentially a compilation of plants to be used in the 

 ornamental garden; therefore American plants which 

 it includes were regarded at that time as flower garden 

 specimens. 



The lists at the end of this chapter have been gleaned 

 from many sources, and are by no means limited to 

 Rea or any other one authority. I have rejected some 

 things which seem doubtful, although they may be re- 

 garded commonly as "colonial" or old-fashioned 

 flowers; and I have found reason to include some 

 others which do not seem to have found their way into 

 such small attempts at enumerating old-time flowers as 

 have ever been made. The flowers appropriate to the 

 earlier and the later periods are separated; naturally 

 anything that was used in the earlier period might be 

 expected to find a place in the later. But the plants 

 of the second period which were unknown to the first 

 should not of course be used in a garden modeled on 

 anything that was done prior to 1700. It is impor- 

 tant, too, to remember that during the early period, 

 beds and divisions of parterres were each usually 



