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Old Time Gardens 
it is happy work. Jeered at in his early life by 
fools for his wood-roving tastes, he has now the 
pleasure and honor of supplying wild flowers to 
our public schools, and being the authority to whom 
scholars and teachers refer in vexed questions of 
botany. 
I think the various tints allied to purple are the 
most difficult to define and describe of any in the 
garden. To begin with, all these pinky-purple, 
these arethusa tints are nameless ; perhaps orchid 
color is as good a name as any. Many deem purple 
and violet precisely the same. Lavender has much 
gray in its tint. Miss Jekyll deems mauve and 
lilac the same ; to me lilac is much pinker, much 
more delicate. Is heliotrope a pale bluish purple ? 
Some call it a blue faintly tinged with red. Then 
there are the orchid tints, which have more pink 
than blue. It is a curious fact that, with all these 
allied tints which come from the union of blue 
with red, the color name comes from a flower 
name. Violet, lavender, lilac, heliotrope, orchid, 
are examples ; each is an exact tint. Rose and 
pink are color names from flowers, and flowers 
of much variety of colors, but the tint name is 
unvarying. 
Edward de Goncourt, of all writers on flowers and 
gardens, seems to have been most frankly pleased 
with the artificial side of the gardener’s art. He 
viewed the garden with the eye of a colorist, setting 
a palette of varied greens from the deep tones of the 
evergreens, the Junipers and Cryptomerias through 
the variegated Hollies, Privets and Spindle trees ; 
