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more time to devote to garden culture. Behind the 

 large Colonial houses sprang into existence gar» 

 dens devoted to flowers, the owners doing the best 

 they could with the material at hand. These de- 

 lightful little plots secluded from the world out- 

 side by high paling fences were the homes of the 

 old-fashioned flowers, many of them descendants 

 of the originals, brought over in the ships that flrst 

 touched our shores. 



They were not like the twentieth-century ones 

 constructed of marble or concrete clothed with 

 vines and standing in a wealth of up-to-date 

 blooms, showing slender marble columns and 

 carved capitals supporting the marble roof. 



Rather are they covered with plain, everyday 

 vines, such as the Dutchman's Pipe with its heavy 

 leaving, clambering roses and the Bitter Sweet or 

 Roxbury Waxwork, whose drooping bunches of 

 yellow and red poke their heads through the lattice 

 work, making a bit of bright color aU through the 

 winter months. This when the ground is covered 

 with snow livens up the surroundings. On either 

 side are planted a wealth of timely flowers, these 

 include the Sweet William, the Hooded Larkspur, 

 and the many-colored Phlox. 



