Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth

								


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Old Time Gardens
OLD-TIME GARDENS


Newly set forth

        by


ALICE MORSE EARLE



    A BOOK OF
THE SWEET O' THE YEAR


"Life is sweet, brother! There's day and night, brother!
both sweet things: sun, moon and stars, brother! all
sweet things: There is likewise a wind on the heath."


NEW YORK

    THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON MACMILLAN & CO LTD

          MCMII


All rights reserved

  COPYRIGHT, 1901,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.



     Set up and electrotyped November, 1901. Reprinted December, 1901;

     January, 1902.


Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

Contents

  CHAPTER                                        PAGE



      I. COLONIAL GARDEN-MAKING                     1



     II. FRONT DOORYARDS                           38



    III. VARIED GARDENS FAIR                       54



     IV. BOX EDGINGS                               91



      V. THE HERB GARDEN                          107



     VI. IN LILAC TIDE                            132



    VII. OLD FLOWER FAVORITES                     161



   VIII. COMFORT ME WITH APPLES                   192



     IX. GARDENS OF THE POETS                     215



      X. THE CHARM OF COLOR                       233



     XI. THE BLUE FLOWER BORDER                   252



    XII. PLANT NAMES                              280



   XIII. TUSSY-MUSSIES                            296



    XIV. JOAN SILVER-PIN                          309



     XV. CHILDHOOD IN A GARDEN                    326



    XVI. MEETIN' SEED AND SABBATH DAY POSIES      341



   XVII. SUN-DIALS                                353


XVIII. GARDEN FURNISHINGS                       383



    XIX. GARDEN BOUNDARIES                        399



     XX. A MOONLIGHT GARDEN                       415



    XXI. FLOWERS OF MYSTERY                       433



   XXII. ROSES OF YESTERDAY                       459



         INDEX                                    479

List of Illustrations

The end papers of this book bear a design of the flower Ambrosia.
The vignette on the title-page is re-drawn from one in The Compleat
Body of Husbandry, Thomas Hale, 1756. It represents "Love laying out
the surface of the earth in a garden."
The device of the dedication is an ancient garden-knot for flowers, from
A New Orchard and Garden, William Lawson, 1608.
The chapter initials are from old wood-cut initials in the English