44 
Old Time Gardens 
of the fourteenth century in England is described 
as set around with Gillyflower, Tansy, Gromwell, 
and cc Pyonys powdered ay betwene ” — just as I 
like to see Peonies set to this day, powdered ” 
White Peonies. 
everywhere between all the other flowers of the 
border. 
I am pleased to note of the common flowers of 
the New England front yard, that they are no new 
things; they are nearly all Elizabethan of date — 
many are older still. Lord Bacon in his essay on 
gardens names many of them, Crocus, Tulip, Hya- 
