346 Old Time Gardens 
tional picture he gives of himself, that he used in 
early life to go thus to church, smelling a Pond Lily, 
“ its odor contrasting with and atoning for that of 
the sermon.” He associated this universal bearing 
of the Lily with a very natural act, that of the first 
spring swim and 
bath, and pictured 
with delight the 
quiet Sabbath still- 
ness and the pure 
openingflowers. He 
said the flower had 
become typical to 
him equally of a 
Sunday morning 
swim and of church- 
going. He adds 
that the young wo- 
men carried on this 
floral Sunday, as a 
companion flower, 
their first Rose. 
This Sabbath 
bearing of the early 
Bronze Sun-dial on Dutch Reformed Church, Water Lilies may 
West End Avenue, New York. have been a local 
custom ; a few miles 
from Walden Pond and Concord an old kinsman of 
mine throughout his long life (which closed twenty 
years ago) carried Water Lilies on summer Sundays to 
church; and starting with neighborly intent a short 
time before the usual hour of church service, he 
