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Old Time Gardens 
white Mallow with flannelly leaves which, doubtless, 
aspired to inhabit the sacred bounds of the front 
yard (and probably dwelt there originally), and 
often were gladly permitted to grow in side gar- 
dens or kitchen dooryards, but which were re- 
garded as interloping weeds by the guardians of the 
Orange Day Lilies. 
front yard, and sternly exiled. Sometimes a bed 
of these orange-tawny Day Lilies which had once 
been warmly welcomed from the Orient, and now 
were not wanted anywhere by any one, kept com- 
pany with the Bouncing Bet, and stretched cheer- 
fully down the roadside. 
When the fences disappeared with the night 
rambles of the cows, the front yards gradually 
