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Old Time Gardens 
perhaps there may be some significance in the three- 
sided form. I felt this influence in the extreme 
when in the presence of this Canadian Trillium, so 
much so that I was depressed by it when wandering 
alone even in the edge of the forest ; and when by 
light o’ the moon I peered in on this forest garden, 
it was like the vision of a troop of trembling white 
ghosts, stimulating to the fancy. It was but a part 
of the whole influence of that place, which was full 
of eerie mystery. For after the countless eons of 
time during which “ the earth was without form and 
void, and darkness was upon the face of the earth,” 
the waters at last were gathered together and dry 
land appeared. And that dry land which came up 
slowly out of the face of the waters was this Lau- 
rentian range. And when at God’s command “ on 
the third day ” the earth brought forth grass, and 
herb yielded seed — lo, among the things which were 
good and beautiful there shone forth upon the earth 
the first starry flowers of the white Trillium. 
