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derground runners. The name Moneywort is akin 

 to its older title Herb-twopence, or Twopenny- 

 Grass. Turner (1548) says the latter name was 

 given from the leaves all "standying together of ech 

 syde of the stalke lyke pence." The striped leaves 

 of one variety of Day Lily make pretty edgings. 

 Those from a Salem garden are here shown. 



We often see in neglected gardens in New Eng- 

 land, or by the roadside where no gardens now exist, 

 a dense gray-green growth of Lavender Cotton, 

 " the female plant of Southernwood," which was 

 brought here by the colonists and here will ever 

 remain. It was used as an edging, and is very 

 pretty when it can be controlled. I know two or 

 three old gardens where it is thus employed. 



Sometimes in driving along a country road you 

 are startled by a concentration of foliage and bloom, 

 a glimpse of a tiny farm-house, over which are 

 clustered and heaped, and round which are gath- 

 ered, close enough to be within touch from door or 

 window, flowers in a crowded profusion ample to fill 

 a large flower bed. Such is the mass of June bloom 

 at Wilbur Farm in old Narragansett (page 290) — a 

 home of flowers and bees. Often by the side of 

 the farm-house is a little garden or flower bed con- 

 taining some splendid examples of old-time flowers. 

 The splendid "running ribbons" of Snow Pinks, 

 on page 292, are in another Narragansett garden 

 that is a bower of blossoms. Thrift has been a 

 common edging since the days of the old herbalist 

 Gerarde. 



