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Old Time Gardens 



throughout the day, the Spiderwort would be more 

 tolerated, for this picture certainly has a Japanesque 

 appearance, and what we must acknowledge was far 

 more characteristic of old-time flowers than of many 



new ones, a 

 wonderful indi- 

 viduality; there 

 was no sameness 

 of outline. I 

 could draw the 

 outline of a 

 dozen blossoms 

 of our modern 

 gardens, and 

 you could not 

 in a careless 

 glance distin- 

 guish one from 

 the other : Cos- 

 mos, Anemone 

 japonic a,) single 

 Dahlias, and 

 Sunflowers, 

 Gaillardia, Ga- 

 zanias, all such 

 simple Rose 

 forms. 



There was a 



quaint and mysterious annual in ancient gardens, 

 called Shell flower, or Molucca Balm, which is not 

 found now even on seedsmen's special lists of old- 

 fashioned plants. The flower was white, pink- 



Love-in-a-mist. 



