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which he mentions were brought in from the wild and 
cultivated here as soon certainly as they were sent to 
old-world gardens. They might have reached there 
as botanical specimens of interest, long before they 
were deemed worthy a place in the garden, to be sure; 
but his is not a botanical enumeration. It is instead 
essentially a compilation of plants to be used in the 
ornamental garden; therefore American plants which 
it includes were regarded at that time as flower garden 
specimens. 
The lists at the end of this chapter have been gleaned 
from many sources, and are by no means limited to 
Rea or any other one authority. I have rejected some 
things which seem doubtful, although they may be re¬ 
garded commonly as “colonial” or old-fashioned 
flowers; and I have found reason to include some 
others which do not seem to have found their way into 
such small attempts at enumerating old-time flowers as 
have ever been made. The flowers appropriate to the 
earlier and the later periods are separated; naturally 
anything that was used in the earlier period might be 
expected to find a place in the later. But the plants 
of the second period which were unknown to the first 
should not of course be used in a garden modeled on 
anything that was done prior to 1700. It is impor¬ 
tant, too, to remember that during the early period, 
beds and divisions of parterres were each usually 
