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would hold them in high estimation and make them widely 
known.” 
I wish I knew what a Cornelian Rose was, and 
Jenoffelins, Baredames, and Summer Sots ; and 
what the Lilies were and the Maritoffles and Bell 
Flowers. They all sound so cheerful and homelike 
Fountain Path in Preston Garden, Columbia, South Carolina, 
— just as if they bloomed well. Perhaps the Cor- 
nelian Rose may have been striped red and white 
like cornelian stone, and like our York and Lan- 
caster Rose. 
Tulips are on all seed and plant lists of colonial 
days, and they were doubtless in every home door- 
yard in New Netherland. Governor Peter Stuy- 
vesant had a fine farm on the Bouwerie, and is said 
