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Old Time Gardens 
faintly sweet-scented with the delicacy found in 
many spring blossoms. A good example of the 
short verses of the Japanese poets tells of the Plum 
blossom and its perfume. 
“In springtime, on a cloudless night. 
When moonbeams throw their silver pall 
O’er wooded landscapes, veiling all 
In one soft cloud of misty white, 
’Twere vain almost to hope to trace 
The Plum trees in their lovely bloom 
Of argent ; ’tis their sweet perfume 
Alone which leads me to their place.” 
The lovely family of double white Plum blos- 
soms which now graces our gardens is varied by 
tinted ones ; there are sixty in all which the nine- 
teenth century owes to Japan. 
The Peach tree has a flower which has given name 
to one of the loveliest colors in the world. The 
Peach has varieties with wonderful double flowers 
of glorious color. Cherry trees bear a more cheer- 
ful white flower than Plum trees. 
“ The Cherry boughs above us spread 
The whitest shade was ever seen ; 
And flicker, flicker came and fled 
Sun-spots between.” 
I do not recall the Judas tree in my childhood. 
I am told there were many in Worcester; but there 
were none in our garden, nor in our neighborhood, 
and that was my world. Orchids might have hung 
from the trees a mile from my home, and would 
