154 The Botanical Gazette. {Marct, 
Only aboriginal American plants should find a place in sucha 
garden. No plant can be found more graceful than maize, @ 
grass associated with the myth of the aboriginal races ol 
America and worthy the place as our national emblem. This 
plant has been little thought of for decorative purposes in out 
gardens. Yet it is decidedly ornamental and worthy of es 
teem. The sunflower, too, ought to be grown. The Indians 
recognized its value, for the Moquis and Supais planted it {or 
food, and used the ground seed mixed with cornmeal as 4 
dainty. The tobacco plant should not be forgotten, as its 
decidedly ornamental. a 
The tomato with its crimson fruit, the pumpkin vine, : 
bean and the potato should find a place in some corner of ; 
aboriginal American garden. The oak, yielding acorns, 2 
the willow, dye stuffs, can be planted with good effect, fii 
a pond, in which grow the arrow-leaf (Sagittaria varia “a 
and yellow lotus (Melumbium luteum), both furnishing abonig 
inal root-esculents, water cress, a salad plant, and wild a ) 
(Zizania aquatica), would serve to break the rigid outlines 
the formal beds. Indian | 
The plants should be arranged with reference to the In v 
tribes which cultivated them. The plants of the Aa 
Should stand apart from those of the Iroquois, those © 
Aztecs from those of the Pueblos. Such a geographic arrang? 
ment is most desirable for educational purposes. oust 
fn arrangement according to the uses of the plants took 
also be made. The strictly agricultural plants, such Pe fet 
beans, pumpkins, etc., ought to be sown in one bed; the pe 
plants, like basswood (Tilia Americana), sumac (Rhus yi 
matica), willow (Salix lastandra), unicorn plant baie dye | 
proboscidea), yucca (Yucca brevifolia), in another; the 
plants, as alder (Alnus incana), celandine, smartweed) att 
white maple, gold thread (Coptzs) is still another. ‘ ing 
plants and medicine plants are important also, as showiMe 
culture of the aborigines. They should by no means 
cluded from this garden. 
There can be no doubt, therefore, that such ethno- 
gardens would stimulate greatly the interest in Indian P tific | 
