Old Flower Favorites 
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of this plant with special affection or admiration ; 
but as a child I loved its crimson flower more than 
any other flower in the garden. Perhaps I should 
say I loved the royal color rather than the flower. 
I gathered tight bunches without foliage into a 
glowing mass of color unequalled in richness of 
tint by anything in nature. I have seen only in a 
stained glass window flooded with high sunlight a 
crimson approaching that of the Mullein Pink. 
Gerarde calls the flower the “ Gardener's Delight or 
Gardner's Eie." It was known in French as the 
Eye of God; and the Rose of Heaven. We used 
to rub our cheeks with the woolly leaves to give a 
beautiful rosy blush, and thereby I once skinned 
one cheek. 
Snapdragons were a beloved flower — companions 
of my childhood in our home garden, but they 
have been neglected a bit by nearly every one of 
late years. Plant a clump of the clear yellow and 
one of pure white Snapdragons, and see how beauti- 
ful they are in the garden, and how fresh they keep 
when cut. We had such a satisfying bunch of 
them on the dinner table to-day, in a milk-white 
glazed Chinese jar; yellow Snapdragons, with bor- 
rowed leaves" of Virgin's-bower ( Adlumia ) and a 
haze of Gypsophila over all. 
A flower much admired in gardens during the early 
years of the nineteenth century was the Plume 
Poppy ( Bocconia ). It has a pretty pinkish bloom 
in general shape somewhat like Meadow Rue (see 
page 164 and page 167). A friend fancied a light 
feathery look over certain of her garden borders., 
