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filled with bedded-out plants, because for long 

 months it would be bare and desolate, because 

 there is no pleasure in a solid spot of hard 

 blazing colour, and because there is delight in 

 the associations of the sweet old - fashioned 

 flowers. There is music in their very names : — 



'*In tlic garden, what in the garden ? 

 Jacob's ladder, and Solomon's seal, ^ 

 And love lies bleeding, with none to heal, 

 In the garden." 



Gillyflowers and columbines, sweet-williams, 

 sweet-johns, hollyhocks and marigolds, ladies' 

 slipper, London pride, bergamot and dittany, 

 fine-haired jacint, pease everlasting, bachelor's 

 buttons, flower of Bristol, love in a mist, apple 

 of love, crown imperial, shepherd's needle, sage 

 of Bethlehem, floramor or flower-gentle, good- 

 night at noone, herb Paris, Venus's looking- 

 glass — these are a few old names to contrast 

 with the horrors of a nursery gardener's cata- 

 logue, and these, too, are the sort of flowers for 

 the garden. The formal garden lends itself 

 readily to designs of smaller gardens within the 

 garden — such as gardens of roses and lilies, or 

 of poppies, or " coronary gardens," as they used 

 to be called, filled with all flowers for garlands, 

 such as Spenser names : — 



^ See Gerard's Herbal, chap. 324. Gerard remarks that this flower 

 was a sovereign remedy for any bruises due to "women's wilfulness in 

 stumbling upon their hastie husbands' fists." 



