230 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



suggestions in their pinnate leaves. I do not 

 know why a divided leaf always has this sub- 

 conscious meaning, but it has. 



Dogwoods, which were the glory of the May 

 woods, are equally glorious now. Sassafras is 

 a close second, and even a small planting should 

 contain it, and under the sassafras there must 

 be plenty of pennyroyal, which is to me a herb 

 of matchless potency in the evoking of old and 

 beloved memories. Of common garden shrubs 

 I have already spoken, my especial favourites 

 being the white snowberry, and the barberries. 

 With these are still late asters, pale purple, 

 like drifts of smoke, among the withering 

 leaves, and a small-flowered white variety that 

 grows in the unnoted way certain asters affect, 

 as if fern seed were sown about them, yet which 

 at the right moment, doff their cloaks of dark- 

 ness, and stand forth in a robe of silver 

 embroidered with seed pearls. For once I 

 wish I knew the scientific name of this fairy 

 princess, so great a favourite is she with me, 

 and gladly would I herald her praises. For 

 all her finery she is a very democratic princess, 

 and strolls along dusty highways and ragged 

 fences like any gypsy. 



