OLD-TIME FLOWERS 
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larger and hence not likely to be crowded by it; but 
the edging of the outer border even here must be “kept 
up with rails.” 
An orchard or fruit garden planned in beds is a 
greater novelty than almost anything else which the 
old fashion has to offer. Yet walled or inclosed gar¬ 
dens with such great beds, and trees instead of flow¬ 
ers within their confines, were more common than 
flower gardens in very early days; and a garden of this 
nature is rather more appropriate to the earliest type 
of Colonial dwelling than one of “pleasure flowers” 
alone. It was of such a garden that Lawson, writing 
in 1626, enumerated the contents: “The Rose red, 
damask, velvet and double double province Rose, the 
sweete muske Rose double and single, the double and 
single white Rose. The faire and sweet senting 
woodbine” (honeysuckle) “double and single and 
double double. Purple cowslips and double cowslips 
and double double cowslips, Primroses double and sin¬ 
gle. The Violet nothing behinde the best for smell¬ 
ing sweetly, and a thousand more will provoke your 
content.” 
Railed beds were still regarded most highly right 
up to the end of the eighteenth century, especially—as 
of old—for the “finer bulbs.” Hyacinths, tulips, poly¬ 
anthus narcissus, double jonquils, anemones, ranuncu¬ 
lus, bulb iris, tuberoses, scarlet and yellow amaryllis, 
