Old Time Gardens 
flowers, and quickly giving them, as we know, 
familiar old English plant-names. 
And there were other garden inhabitants, as truly 
English as were the cherished flowers, the old gar- 
den weeds, which quickly found a home and thrived 
in triumph in the new soil. Perhaps the weed seeds 
came over in the flower-pot that held a sheltered 
plant or cutting ; perhaps a few were mixed with 
garden seeds ; perhaps they were in the straw or 
other packing of household goods : no one knew 
the manner of their coming, but there they were, 
Motherwort, Groundsel, Chickweed, and Wild Mus- 
tard, Mullein and Nettle, Henbane and Wormwood. 
Many a goodwife must have gazed in despair at 
the persistent Plantain, cc the Englishman’s foot,” 
which seems to have landed in Plymouth from the 
Mayflower. 
Josselyn made other lists of plants which he 
found in America, under these headings: — 
u Such plants as are common with us in England. 
Such plants as are proper to the Country. 
Such plants as are proper to the Country and have no 
name. 
Such plants as have sprung up since the English planted, 
and kept cattle in New England.” 
In these lists he gives a surprising number of 
English weeds which had thriven and rejoiced in 
their new home. 
Mr. Tuckerman calls Josselyn’s list of the fishes 
of the new world a poor makeshift ; his various 
lists of plants are better, but they are the lists of 
