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Old Time Gardens 
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Sassafras, Saxifrage, Sweet Cicely, Sage (common blue), 
Sage (red), Summer Savory, Winter Savory, Santonin, 
Sweet Woodruff, Saffron, Spearmint, wild Sarsaparilla, 
Black Snakeroot, Squills, Senna, St.-John’s-Wort, Sorrel, 
Spruce Fir, Self-heal, Southernwood. 
Thorn Apple, Tansy, Thyme, Tobacco, Tarragon. 
Valerian, Dogtooth Violet, Blue Violet. 
Witchhazel, Wormwood, Wintergreen, Willow, Walnut. 
Yarrow. 
It will be noted that some common herbs and 
medicinal plants are missing ; there is, for instance, 
no Box; it will not live in that climate; and there 
are many other herbs which this garden held for a 
short time, but which succumbed under the fierce 
winter winds from Lake Michigan. 
It is interesting to compare this list with one 
made in rhyme three centuries ago, the garland of 
herbs of the nymph Lelipa in Drayton’s Muse s 
Elyzium . 
“ A chaplet then of Herbs I’ll make 
Than which though yours be braver. 
Yet this of mine I’ll undertake 
Shall not be short in savour. 
With Basil then I will begin. 
Whose scent is wondrous pleasing : 
This Eglantine I’ll next put in 
The sense with sweetness seizing. 
Then in my Lavender I lay 
Muscado put among it. 
With here and there a leaf of Bay, 
Which still shall run along it. 
Germander, Marjoram and Thyme, 
Which used are for strewing ; 
With Hyssop as an herb most prime 
