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Old Time Gardens 



Linnaeus made a list of forty-six flowers which 

 constituted what he termed the Horologe or Watch 

 of Flora, and he gave what he called their exact hours 

 of rising and setting. He divided them into three 

 classes : Meteoric, Tropical, and Equinoctial flowers. 

 Among those which he named are: 



Of course these hours would vary in this country. 

 And I must say very frankly that I think we should 

 always be behind time if we trusted to Flora's 

 Horologe. This floral clock of Linnaeus was calcu- 

 lated for Upsala, Sweden ; De Candolle gave another 

 for Paris, and one has been arranged for our Eastern 

 states. 



