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Old Time Gardens 



would hold them in high estimation and make them widely 

 known." 



I wish I knew what a Cornelian Rose was, and 

 Jenoffelins, Baredames, and Summer Sots ; and 

 what the Lilies were and the Maritoffles and Bell 

 Flowers. They all sound so cheerful and homelike 



Fountain Path in Preston Garden, Columbia, South Carolina. 



just as if they bloomed welL Perhaps the Cor- 

 nelian Rose may have been striped red and white 

 like cornelian stone, and like our York and Lan- 

 caster Rose. 



Tulips are on all seed and plant lists of colonial 

 days, and they were doubtless in every home door- 

 yard in New Netherland. Governor Peter Stuy- 

 vesant had a fine farm on the Bouwerie, and is said 



