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Old Time Gardens 



of the fourteenth century in England is described 

 as set around with Gillyflower, Tansy, Gromwell, 

 and " Pyonys powdered ay betwene " — just as I 

 like to see Peonies set to this day, "powdered" 



White Peonies. 



everywhere between all the other flowers of the 

 border. 



I am pleased to note of the common flowers of 

 the New England front yard, that they are no new 

 things; they are nearly all Elizabethan of date — 

 many are older still. Lord Bacon in his essay on 

 gardens names many of them, Crocus, Tulip, Hya- 



