458 Old Time Gardens 



perhaps there may be some significance in the three- 

 sided form. I felt this influence in the extreme 

 when in the presence of this Canadian Trillium, so 

 much so that I was depressed by it when wandering 

 alone even in the edge of the forest ; and when by 

 light o' the moon I peered in on this forest garden, 

 it was like the vision of a troop of trembling white 

 ghosts, stimulating to the fancy. It was but a part 

 of the whole influence of that place, which was full 

 of eerie mystery. For after the countless eons of 

 time during which " the earth was without form and 

 void, and darkness was upon the face of the earth," 

 the waters at last were gathered together and dry 

 land appeared. And that dry land which came up 

 slowly out of the face of the waters was this Lau- 

 rentian range. And when at God's command " on 

 the third day " the earth brought forth grass, and 

 herb yielded seed — lo, among the things which were 

 good and beautiful there shone forth upon the earth 

 the first starry flowers of the white Trillium. 



