The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-12-07

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country. You must have your own fence TO
talk to the neighbors and the butcher over
II for no other purpose. May Aud Cloote
ny away with all Village Improvement
Societies that think otherwise. And Mrs,
Earle has sound IDEAS about boz. We
are prepared TO maintain against q world
In arms that a box hedge, box borders
are the condition precedent OF a Christian
garden and q civilized rural home and that
the dmarum guild, the bitter smell OF box
transcends all other f~ragranoes. Box 'har-
bors slugs,' says the Enemy. Well, a slug
Is better than a sluggard. Box borders
interfere with the growth OF the lowers.
Suppose that IL Is so. What OF II? What
flower can be lovelier than they' To SON
clude, without box there can be no garden,
formal or informal. For good old Peony
or -Piny. Mrs. Earle speaks a good word.
Blowsy. haunting folks hate the "Piny' and
attribute TO It their own vulgarity.
Old Gov. John Endioott, far from a flow
cry person, brought TO Salem the Dyer's
Weed, Woad-waxen, -Salem WoodwaI,
yellowest OF flowers, which as Broom now
blazes over Heaven only knows how many
acres about Beverly, Salem and Swampscott.
Robert Prince Of Flushing set up the first
COWIneTClh UubcTy hNi
town In 1897. The Princes and their Lin
naan Botanic Garden and Nurseries
and odd American Nursery deserve
grateful mention. william Prince. I'd.
introduced the Lombardy Poplar. long
the favoite American tree. the emblem
OF Democracy and still a queen. to our
thinking. among trees. The Oldest ana
finest cedar OF Lebanon in this country
~ - - III -. hAy ~ naf and
Give honor also unto Capt. Sands OF Sands
Point, who, ito please his Virginia BRIDE
brought a locust tree to Long Island a
hundred years ago, since when II has spread
all over the island. We must confess our
selves surprised to learn from Mrs. Earle
that the Tiger Lily. which we have long re-
garded as one Of the ~trustiest ancients
OF the Colonial garden Is only a child. capt
Kirkpatrick Of the East India ~Company's
service brought the first bulb TO England
In 1904, and Mrs. Earle met some years ago
a man OF eighty-f1ve who remembered the
first Tiger Liliesthat grew In Boston. Never
mind, Tiger Lily is a good fellow, albeit its
affection for crimson purple Phlox is a little
excessive. Phlox. "the only native Ameri-
can plant" should be in every respectable
garden. Add dafodils, yellow lilies, pinks,
Flower-de-Luce. Tulips. the Cabbage Rose.
II you can find one, Sweet William, Mari
gold, Hollyhock. and don't forget the Morn
ing Glory.
How many names has Ladies' Delight?
Bird's-eye, G~arden-gate. Johnny-jump-up,
N~one-so-pretty. Kitty-come. Kit-run-
about, Observation-Disclosures Come
and cuddle-me. Pink-of-my-Joan, Kiss
me, Tickle-my-fancy. Kiss-me-ere-l-rise,
Jump-up-and- kiss-me. flower of a pleas
ing symbolism. But its best and longest
name remains TO be told: Meet-her-in-the-
entry-kiss- her-in-the-buttery. A glorious
name. -nvalled only by Miss Jekyll's tri-
umph OF nomenclature for the Stonecrop.
namely: Observation-Disclosures
ever-so-drunk." To his dying day Lander
called lilac -Laylock.- The old name was
Bluepipe. Drop a tear or a beer 20 the
memory OF DIR. Joe Pye. New England
Indian doctor, who lives forever in the
Joepye weed and cured all diseases with joe
pye tea. Rise. gorge Of memory! All, that
Internal but highly competent conservator
OF childhood, "senny" tea! And -safern'
tea. Youth looks yellow through it. We
old fogies who have swum and survived
that long, yellow sea can only wonde how
Cnlluttu kION up NiO Nh"t 'o''''
simple. II belongs 10 the sympathetic
school Of medicine. but it everlastingly
knocked over the '%jaunders.- And Med
ford rum and tansy IA a spring medicine.
Leave out the tansy and there are those who
would undertake 10 sweeten spring with
that remedy now. Medford rum! Sure.
no drink OF earth or heaven can be half 40
mellow as that name sounds.
Speaking Of drink, Mn, Earle has a com
Portable chapter about apples. But we
don't recognize her -Sspson, Early Sapson,
Sapsyvine." a corruption Of old English
sSops-o'-vine. and described as "A charm
ing little rcd checked apple Of early autumn,
slightly larger than a healthy crab apple
The -Sopsyvines" that we u-ed 10 convey
were full grown early apples. and In tho
bright lexicon Of youth there II no such
word a. fall apple. When you are very
young and immature. your apple Il likely
% he likewise. aLd the fall apple - slaugh-
terei in the summer Does anybody
hereabouts make that Pennsylvania Dutch
dclicary, cider soupi The recipe l. simple
Equal parts Of cider and water boiled
and thickensi with sweet cream and nour
when ready 20 serve. bits Of bread OF toast
are plAcei Ia IL Mole cider IL boiling cider
thicken.i 20 a syrup with beatsn eggs
and milk Apple butter, billed cider
apple sass but come, oome, this sort ~
thing would make aH anchonts's mouth
water Ist's ~ 10 m.etin' Here 10
another comfortable chapter. on 'Mo"un'
se.i aud sabbath Day Posies
la summer the women aud children used
90 larry hunchos ~ tho seeds ~ frnu.l
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away o. them through tho iutrImlnablr
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