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crudely realizes the same ideal, although this design 
had probably suffered greatly when Stork recorded it, 
through lack of the precise care necessary to preserve 
such forms. 
The myrtle may have been used also, though no 
mention of it is made directly. Hedges in old Span¬ 
ish gardens are made of it, and it is hardy in the Flor¬ 
ida latitude. For its fragrance it doubtless was 
brought with the other things from home; but boxwood 
after all is the aristocrat, and if it was used here at all, 
it undoubtedly had the place of honor. I should not 
doubt its presence but for the fact that none remains 
to-day—but that is not proof that none was used in 
the earliest gardens, before native plants had become 
acceptable; and before the English came. 
For flowers there were roses, roses and more roses— 
and very little beside roses. Whatever else there may 
have been, there was never an end of roses; and these 
were of course the roses of France, and the Bengal rose, 
with doubtless the delicious musk rose and the Bourbon 
this supposedly a long-ago hybrid of the French and 
the Bengal—and the Damask. Carnations there were 
and heliotrope, blue and white violets, oleanders, rose¬ 
mary, lavender, honeysuckle, jessamine, iris, tulips, 
Narcissus, poppies—but the roses were by far the most 
wonderful, and the most plentiful. 
Although no one speaks of the stone wall surround- 
