Colonial Garden-making 



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and have all sent home in a bandbox together ; each 

 would prove a memorial of the other; and long 

 after the glory of the bonnet had departed, and the 

 bonnet itself was ashes, the thriving Sweet Peas and 

 Larkspur would recall its becoming charms. I have 

 often seen the advertisements of these seedswomen 

 in old newspapers ; unfortunately they seldom gave 

 printed lists of their store of seeds. Here is one 

 list printed in a Boston newspaper on March 30, 

 1760 : 



Lavender. 

 Palma Christi. 

 Cerinthe or Honeywort, 



loved of bees. 

 Tricolor. 

 Indian Pink. 

 Scarlet Cacalia. 

 Yellow Sultans. 

 Lemon African Marigold. 

 Sensitive Plants. 

 White Lupine. 

 Love Lies Bleeding. 

 Patagonian Cucumber. 

 Lobelia. 

 Catchfly. 

 Wing-peas. 

 Convolvulus. 

 Strawberry Spinage. 

 Branching Larkspur. 

 White Chrysanthemum. 

 Nigaella Romano. 

 Rose Campion. 

 Snap Dragon. 



Nolana prostrata. 

 Summer Savory. 

 Hyssop. 



Red Hawkweed. 

 Red and White Lavater. 

 Scarlet Lupine. 

 Large blue Lupine. 

 Snuff flower. 

 Caterpillars. 

 Cape Marigold. 1 

 Rose Lupine. 

 Sweet Peas. 

 Venus' Navelwort. 

 Yellow Chrysanthemum, 

 Cyanus minor. 

 Tall Holyhock. 

 French Marigold. 

 Carnation Poppy. 

 Globe Amaranthus. 

 Yellow Lupine. 

 Indian Branching Cox- 

 combs. 

 Iceplants. 



