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Old Time Gardens 



not introduced to the gardens of English-speaking 

 folk till 1 846, when the London Horticultural Soci- 

 ety received a single plant from the north of China. 



Matrimony-vine at Van Cortlandt Manor. 



How quickly it became cheap and abundant; soon it 

 bloomed in every cottage garden ; how quickly it 

 became beloved ! The graceful racemes of pendant 

 rosy flowers were eagerly welcomed by children ; they 



