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crudely realizes the same ideal, although this design 

 had probably suffered greatly when Stork recorded it, 

 through lack of the precise care necessary to preserve 

 such forms. 



The myrtle may have been used also, though no 

 mention of it is made directly. Hedges in old Span- 

 ish gardens are made of it, and it is hardy in the Flor- 

 ida latitude. For its fragrance it doubtless was 

 brought with the other things from home ; but boxwood 

 after all is the aristocrat, and if it was used here at all, 

 it undoubtedly had the place of honor. I should not 

 doubt its presence but for the fact that none remains 

 to-day — but that is not proof that none was used in 

 the earliest gardens, before native plants had become 

 acceptable; and before the English came. 



For flowers there were roses, roses and more roses — 

 and very little beside roses. Whatever else there may 

 have been, there was never an end of roses; and these 

 were of course the roses of France, and the Bengal rose, 

 with doubtless the delicious musk rose and the Bourbon 

 — this supposedly a long-ago hybrid of the French and 

 the Bengal — and the Damask. Carnations there were 

 and heliotrope, blue and white violets, oleanders, rose- 

 mary, lavender, honeysuckle, jessamine, iris, tulips. 

 Narcissus, poppies — but the roses were by far the most 

 wonderful, and the most plentiful. 



Although no one speaks of the stone wall surround- 



