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Draco —dragon’s blood (which must be taken indoors 
in winter). 
Puritan Garden 
Characterized by general lack of definite design: 
practically the same as the dooryards of to-day, with 
the exception of the trim picket fences which are now 
mostly lacking. When design is attempted, it follows 
so closely the Dutch preciseness that no separate analy¬ 
sis is necessary: more shrubbery is used than in the 
Dutch, however. 
'Planting 
Trees: Ulrnus Americana —elm; Salix Babylonica 
willow; Acer saccharinum-sw^x maple; Pinus resi- 
nosa —red or Norway pine; Thuya occidentalis —Ar¬ 
bor-vitse or white cedar; Populus nigra , Italica—Lom¬ 
bardy poplar; Ms cuius Hippocastanum —horse-chest¬ 
nut; and other trees native to the section. Fruit trees 
scattered through the yard, here and there, or planted 
in square groups of four or more sometimes within box- 
bordered, large beds as in the Nantucket garden shown 
opposite page 98. 
Shrubs: Ay ring a vulgaris —common lilac; purple 
and white; Syringa Persica —Persian lilac; Morus alba 
—mulberry; Rhus cotinus —smoke tree; Berberis vul¬ 
garis —barberry; Cornus Mas —cornelian cherry; Hi- 
