7 6 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



with the worthy herbalist, since there are but 

 few odours that are as absolutely fresh and 

 pure as that of this little flower ; the violet 

 and primrose only having allied qualities. 

 Tiny enchanted princesses, the children of my 

 day called them, and fancied out all sorts of 

 adventures for them in the quiet old gardens, 

 where they sun themselves as they did in 

 Anne Hathaway's, where young Will Shake- 

 speare must have loved them. I like to 

 believe that she carried some of the little 

 friends with her, when the family moved to 

 the grand New Place, and so tried, as women 

 will, to keep old memories sweet. And I 

 am almost sure that the ladies' delights were 



the pansies 



"freaked with jet" 



which Milton knew. 



In a village garden of the old days, crocus 

 were planted in stiff little bunches close to the 

 southern walls of the houses, where the eaves 

 sheltered them, in a way, and the radiated 

 warmth of the foundation bricks urged them 

 into the earliest possible blooming. It is a 

 much better fashion than the modern one of 

 scattering them about the lawn. Lawns have 



