OLD-TIME FLOWERS 2m 



larger and hence not likely to be crowded by it; but 

 the edging of the outer border even here must be "kept 

 up with rails." 



An orchard or fruit garden planned in beds is a 

 greater novelty than almost anything else which the 

 old fashion has to offer. Yet walled or inclosed gar- 

 dens with such great beds, and trees instead of flow- 

 ers within their confines, were more common than 

 flower gardens in very early days; and a garden of this 

 nature is rather more appropriate to the earliest type 

 of Colonial dwelling than one of "pleasure flowers" 

 alone. It was of such a garden that Lawson, writing 

 in 1626, enumerated the contents: "The Rose red, 

 damask, velvet and double double province Rose, the 

 sweete muske Rose double and single, the double and 

 single white Rose. The faire and sweet senting 

 woodbine" (honeysuckle) "double and single and 

 double double. Purple cowslips and double cowslips 

 and double double cowslips. Primroses double and sin- 

 gle. The Violet nothing behinde the best for smell- 

 ing sweetly, and a thousand more will provoke your 

 content." 



Railed beds were still regarded most highly right 

 up to the end of the eighteenth century, especially — as 

 of old — for the "finer bulbs." Hyacinths, tulips, poly- 

 anthus narcissus, double jonquils, anemones, ranuncu- 

 lus, bulb iris, tuberoses, scarlet and yellow amaryllis, 



