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Old Time Gardens

[Illustration]




  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._"

  [Illustration]

        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._




[Illustration: TO MY DAUGHTER

ALICE CLARY EARLE

TO WHOSE KNOWLEDGE OF FLOWERS

AND LOVE OF FLOWER LORE

I OWE MANY PAGES OF THIS BOOK....]




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
Herbals of Gerarde, Parkinson, and Cole.

                                                      PAGE

  _Garden of Johnson Mansion, Germantown. Photographed
    by Henry Troth_      facing 4

  _Garden at Grumblethorp, Home of Charles J. Wister, Esq.,
    Germantown, Pennsylvania_      7

  _Garden of Bartram House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania_      9

  _Garden of Abigail Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts_      10

  _Garden at Mount Vernon-on-the-Potomac, Virginia. Home of
    George Washington_      facing 12

  _Gate and Hedge of Preston Garden, Columbia, South Carolina_      15

  _Fountain Path in Preston Garden, Columbia, South Carolina_      18

  _Door in Wall of Kitchen Garden at Van Cortlandt Manor.
    Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Photographed by J.
    Horace McFarland_      facing 20

  _Garden of Van Cortlandt Manor. Photographed by J. Horace
    McFarland_      facing 24

  _Garden at Prince Homestead, Flushing, Long Island_      28

  _Old Dutch Garden of Bergen Homestead, Bay Ridge, Long
    Island_      facing 32

  _Garden at Duck Cove, Narragansett, Rhode Island_      35

  _The Flowering Almond under the Window. Photographed by
    Eva E. Newell_     