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Old Time Gardens 
delights.” In California grow wild a dozen varie- 
ties ; the best known of these is recurved, but it 
does not droop, and is to all outward glance an 
Anemone, and has lost in that new world much the 
mystery of the old herbalist’s “ Checker Lily,” save 
the checkers ; these always are visible. 
The Cyclamen and Dodecatheon lay their ears 
back like a vicious horse. Both have an eerie aspect, 
White Fritillaria. 
as if turned upside down, as has also the Nightshade. 
I knew a little child, a flower lover from babyhood, 
who feared to touch the Cyclamen, and even cried 
if any attempt was made to have her touch the 
flower. When older, she said that she had feared 
the flower would sting her. 
I have often a sense of mysterious meaning in a 
vine, it seems so plainly to reach out to attract your 
