Old Time Gardens 
throughout the day, the Spiderwort would be more 
tolerated, for this picture certainly has a Japanesque 
appearance, and what we must acknowledge was far 
more characteristic of old-time flowers than of many 
new ones, a 
wonderful indi- 
viduality; there 
was no sameness 
of outline. I 
could draw the 
outline of a 
dozen blossoms 
of our modern 
gardens, and 
you could not 
in a careless 
glance distin- 
guish one from 
the other : Cos- 
mos, Anemone 
japonic a, single 
Dahlias, and 
Sunflowers, 
Gaillardia, Ga- 
za nias, all such 
simple Rose 
forms. 
Love-in-a-mist. 
I here was a 
quaint and mysterious annual in ancient gardens, 
called Shell flower, or Molucca Balm, which is not 
found now even on seedsmen’s special lists of old- 
fashioned plants. The flower was white, pink- 
