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Old Time Gardens 
Thyme. 
Sweet Marjoram. 
Tree Mallows. 
Everlasting. 
Greek Valerian. 
Tree Primrose. 
Canterbury Bells. 
Purple Stock. 
Sweet Scabiouse. 
Columbine. 
Pleasant-eyed Pink. 
Dwarf Mountain Pink. 
Sweet Rocket. 
Horn Poppy. 
French Honeysuckle. 
Bloody Wallflower. 
Sweet William. 
Honesty (to be sold in small 
parcels that every one may 
have a little). 
Persicaria. 
Polyanthos. 
50 Different Sorts of mixed 
Tulip Roots. 
Ranunculus 
Gladiolus. 
Starry Scabiouse. 
Curled Mallows. 
Painted Lady topknot peas. 
Colchicum. 
Persian Iris. 
Star Bethlehem. 
This list is certainly a pleasing one. It gives 
opportunity for flower borders of varied growth and 
rich color. There is a quality of some minds 
which may be termed historical imagination. It is 
the power of shaping from a few simple words or 
details of the faraway past, an ample picture, full 
of light and life, of which these meagre details are 
but a framework. Having this list of the names 
of these sturdy old annuals and perennials, what do 
you perceive besides the printed words ? I see that 
the old mid-century garden where these seeds found 
a home was a cheerful place from earliest spring to 
autumn; that it had many bulbs, and thereafter a 
constant succession of warm blooms till the Cox- 
combs, Marigolds, Colchicums and Chrysanthe- 
mums yielded to New England’s frosts. I know 
