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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 a"s 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 



