LITTLE GARDENS 



cinth, crown Imperial, snowdrop, bluebell, the 

 bellls or English daisy — the " wee, crlmson-tlp- 

 plt flower " of Burns's apostrophe, which I have 

 found, self sown, as an escape from American 

 gardens; and In your wild corner, if you have 

 one, the tawny lily that we call dog-tooth violet, 

 because It Is not a violet and does not represent 

 a dog's tooth, and Is as unwisely called adder's- 

 tongue; the fragile spring-beauty, squirrel-corn, 

 the anemone; then, among the woods we come 

 upon the Dutchman's-breeches (If this name 

 offends you, call them white hearts) and trail- 

 ing arbutus, that peddlers tear up from the New 

 England and Long Island woods to hawk about 

 our streets. Before April Is over we have In our 

 gardens the candytuft, clarkla, gllla, California 

 poppy, Drummond's phlox, daphne mazereiim, 

 goldenbell, June-berry, shadbush, splcebush, Ju- 

 das-tree, Japanese quince, and such boughten 

 things as you may have had from the florist and 

 put into your flower-beds, pots and all, against 

 the sharpness of spring winds. 



There Is little danger from frost In the lati- 

 tude of New York after the beginning of May, 

 although the month may be raw and the output 

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