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are quite worthy a place in the garden- 

 and Germander. 



-Marjoram, Savory, 



A BROOKSIDE SPANGLED WITH TWINKLING BLOSSOMS 



No flower is truer in appearance to its name than 

 the starry Star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum um- 

 bellatum) and none is lovelier when naturalized 



waste places, and in partial shade the purplish sort 

 produce a most lovely effect. In England double Rockets 

 are grown. Of old these were greatly esteemed and were 

 called Queen's Gilliflowers. Rose Campion or Mullein Pink 

 (Lychnis Coronaria) is also old-fashioned, neglected and 

 lovely. 



A little relative of the Mullein Pink, so old-fashioned as 

 to have been mentioned by Ion Gardener, is Lychnis Flos- 

 cuculi, the Cuckoo Gilliflower, also called Ragged Robin, 

 or Meadow Campion. It bears fringy, reddish-pink blossoms 

 in a loose cluster. The double sort is of more substance and 

 both flower nearly all the season. "Sow them in March," 

 says an old Dutch florist, "when the Moon's at full and the 

 Wind southerly, and the double ones will grow still more 

 double." Champions or Campions (Lychnis) used to be 

 very popular and were of "several sortes." One that used 

 to be a favorite is the double white Campion, Lychnis alba 

 flore-pleno or L. vespertina. 



A word remains to be said for the reinstatement in our 

 gardens of spry little Johnny-jump-ups that endow any 

 garden with a comfortable appearance of old-fashionedness; 

 for Star-of-Bethlehem and potent Feverfew, and double 

 Fair-Maids-of-France; and for the three herby plants that 



AND then there are the old-fashioned Roses! Ion Gardener 

 knew of but two kinds of Rose — the red and the white — 

 but Parkinson, writing about two hundred years later, had 

 a fair list, and most of these were brought to this country 

 by the early settlers and grew in our grandmothers' gardens. 

 Among them the Damask Rose is still to be found in some old 

 gardens, the Cabbage or Provence Rose, and the bicolored 

 York and Lancaster, a form of the Damask and quaintest of 

 all Roses. Moss Roses are very old-fashioned and quite out 

 of fashion now, but they are truly lovely and may still be 

 come by without going through too many catalogues; and 

 finally, there is the Sweet-briar or Eglantine. Never over- 

 look this. 



LOVELY BUT CONFIRMED VAGABONDS 



For wander the Queen's Gilliflowers or Rockets (Hesperis Ma- 

 tronalis) will in spite of their fineappellation, back to the half 

 shady wild places, where they thrive like veritable Gypsies 



