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confused and disappointing. In the garden itself 
the excess of color is as cloying as its surfeit of 
scent pouring from the thousands of open flower 
cups ; we long for green hedges, even for scanter 
bloom and for fainter fragrance. It is not a garden 
to live in, as are our box-bordered gardens of the 
North, our cheerful cottage borders, and our well- 
balanced Italian gardens, so restful to the eye; it is 
a garden to look at and wonder at. 
The Dutch settlers brought their love of flower- 
ing bulbs, and the bulbs also, to the new world. 
Adrian Van der Donck, a gossiping visitor to New 
Netherland when the little town of New Amsterdam 
had about a thousand inhabitants, described the fine 
kitchen gardens, the vegetables and fruits, and gave 
an interesting list of garden flowers which he found 
under cultivation by the Dutch vrouws. He says : 
u Of the Flowers. The flowers in general which the 
Netherlanders have introduced there are the white and red 
roses of different kinds, the cornelian roses, and stock roses; 
and those of which there were none before in the country, 
such as eglantine, several kinds of gillyflowers, jenoffelins, 
different varieties of fine tulips, crown imperials, white 
lilies, the lily frutularia, anemones, baredames, violets, mari- 
golds, summer sots, etc. The clove tree has also been 
introduced, and there are various indigenous trees that 
bear handsome flowers, which are unknown in the Nether- 
lands. We also find there some flowers of native growth, 
as, for instance, sunflowers, red and yellow lilies, moun- 
tain lilies, morning stars, red, white, and yellow maritoffles 
(a very sweet flower), several species of bell flowers, etc., 
to which I have not given particular attention, but amateurs 
