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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

