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Draco — dragon's blood (which must be taken indoors 

 in winter). 



Puritan Garden 

 Characterized by general lack of definite design: 

 practically the same as the dooryards of to-day, with 

 the exception of the trim picket fences which are now 

 mostly lacking. When design is attempted, it follows 

 so closely the Dutch preciseness that no separate analy- 

 sis is necessary: more shrubbery is used than in the 

 Dutch, however. 



Planting 



Trees: Ulmus Americana — elm; Salix Babylonica 

 willow; Acer saccharinum — ^sugar maple; Pinus resi- 

 nosa — red or Norway pine; Thuya occidentalis — Ar- 

 bor-vita or white cedar; Populus nigra, Italica — ^Lom- 

 bardy poplar; Msculus Hippocastanum — Ahorse-chest- 

 nut; and other trees native to the section. Fruit trees 

 scattered through the yard, here and there, or planted 

 in square groups of four or more sometimes within box- 

 bordered, large beds as in the Nantucket garden shown 

 opposite page 98. 



Shrubs: Syringa vulgaris — common lilac; purple 

 and white; Syringa Persica — Persian lilac; Morus alba 

 — ^mulberry; Rhus cotinus — smoke tree; Berberis vul- 

 garis — barberry; Cornus Mas — cornelian cherry; Hi- 



