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Old Time Gardens 



Thyme. 



Sweet Marjoram. 

 Tree Mallows. 

 Everlasting. 

 Greek Valerian. 

 Tree Primrose. 

 Canterbury Bells. 

 Purple Stock. 

 Sweet Scabiouse. 

 Columbine. 

 Pleasant-eyed Pink. 

 Dwarf Mountain Pink. 

 Sweet Rocket. 

 Horn Poppy. 

 French Honeysuckle. 

 Bloody Wallflower. 



Sweet William. 

 Honesty (to be sold in small 

 parcels that every one mav 



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have a little). 

 Persicaria. 

 Polyanthos. 

 50 Different Sorts of mixed 



Tulip Roots. 

 Ranunculus 

 Gladiolus. 

 Starry Scabiouse. 

 Curled Mallows. 

 Painted Lady topknot peas. 

 Colchicum. 

 Persian Iris. 

 Star Bethlehem. 



This list is certainly a pleasing one. It gives 

 opportunity for flower borders of varied growth and 

 rich color. There is a quality of some minds 

 which may be termed historical imagination. It is 

 the power of shaping from a few simple words or 

 details of the faraway past, an ample picture, full 

 of light and life, of which these meagre details are 

 but a framework. Having this list of the names 

 of these sturdy old annuals and perennials, what do 

 you perceive besides the printed words ? I see that 

 the old mid-century garden where these seeds found 

 a home was a cheerful place from earliest spring to 

 autumn ; that it had many bulbs, and thereafter a 

 constant succession of warm blooms till the Cox- 

 combs, Marigolds, Colchicums and Chrysanthe- 

 mums yielded to New England's frosts. I know 



