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mented by tints of salmon, vermilion, and rose. 
I recall with special pleasure the profuse garden 
decoration at East Hampton, Long Island, of a 
pure cherry-colored Phlox, generally a doubtful 
color to me, but there so associated with the white 
blooms of various other plants, and backed by a 
high hedge covered solidly with blossoming Honey- 
suckle, that it was wonderfully successful. 
To other members of the Phlox family, all 
natives of our own continent, the old front yard 
owed much; the Moss Pink sometimes crowded 
out both Grass and its companion the Periwinkle ; 
it is still found in our gardens, and bountifully also 
in our fields ; either in white or pink, it is one of 
the satisfactions of spring, and its cheerful little 
blossom is of wonderful use in many waste places. 
An old-fashioned bloom, the low-growing Phlox 
amoena , with its queerly fuzzy leaves and bright 
crimson blossoms, was among the most distinctly 
old-fashioned flowers of the front yard. It was tol- 
erated rather than cultivated, as was its companion, 
the Arabis or Rock Cress — both crowding, monop- 
olizing creatures. I remember well how they spread 
over the beds and up the grass banks in my 
mother’s garden, how sternly they were uprooted, 
in spite of the pretty name of the Arabis — <c Snow 
in Summer.” 
Sometimes the front yard path had edgings of 
sweet single or lightly double white or tinted Pinks, 
which were not deemed as choice as Box edgings. 
Frequently large Box plants clipped into simple 
and natural shapes stood at the side of the door- 
