THE LURE OF THE GARDEN 
to the house, embracing it with vines and sheltering it 
with flowering shrubs, to spread out as time and occasion 
served and the needs of the family increased. With 
the Puritans utility went hand in hand with beauty in 
the garden, and the box-hedged beds that grew savory 
or sweet herbs, small fruits or simples, looked quite as 
lovely to the gardener as the hollyhocks and primroses 
imported from England. Tomatoes, under the name 
of love-apples, were kept in the decorative portions and 
trained on ornamental trellises, being thought poisonous, 
while the southern wall was used as in England to 
ripen quinces and apricots against. 
It was the old-fashioned posies, many of them new 
enough then, that were planted in beds and borders: 
gillyflower, love-lies-bleeding, snapdragon, purple 
loosestrife, guelder-roses, heartsease, foxglove, lady’s- 
slipper, eglantine or sweetbrier, since run wild over 
the country. Roots of sweet violet were carefully 
carried all the long way from England, as was ivy and 
honeysuckle. They flourished famously in the new 
soil, disputing with the narrow paths their right of ex¬ 
istence, rejoicing in color and sweet odors, speaking in 
each healthy bloom and twining tendril of love, of care 
and gentle humoring. 
The Faiths, Phoebes, Patiences, and Contents, for 
the names of the women were as quaint as those of 
their flowers, most of whom had faced perils and bitter 
hardship for an ideal, had strongly individual charac- 
