Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-03

a certain secluded spot tHtie - =
poetry garden, wherein no hover -
allowed to blossom that Is not men
toned in poetry. II is charHlihs
garden. fun of the sentiment that
clings to the poetry of the past, luil' too'
of beautiful and interesting howers.
At the bottom Of his garden there -
q low brick wall and on one sioe ~ -
bounded by struggling little nrook IT'S
other two boundaries are marked ny d
hedge of box which, although there may
he no quotation TO uphold its use sus-
gests the poetical.
The maker OF this interesting garden
received much of her inspiration from
Sbakespeare One Of the beauties or her
collection-which, by the way. she was
fortunate enough TO lind IN positlon When
she chose the site-is me old MHiow
free which leans far over the little brook
This is the willow the queen talks ABOUT
i'm Hamlet.
Thai shows his boar leaves in the CLASSY stream.
She saws when she * telling OF the hHu-
ing of Opheila'S body.
ophelia's famous flowers are represent
ed. too. Many columbines, in all their
loneliness of violet, rose, yellow and blue.
make the early June days bright; and
the wild red columbines grow by the
brookside English daisies, too. edge the
border of flowers that skirts the garden,
and wild violets star the grass. which rs
only kent short enough to make walking
easy Rosemary is in the border. with
THYME a herb mentioned in another OF
Shakespeare's plays. And Ophelia's pam
sizes blossom by hundreds The mistress
of this garden is not content win a Sun.
her garden IS fairly running over with
blossoms. 80 .
The thyme which hobnobs with the
rosemary is from Midsummer Nlsht
Dream 1t is mentioned in this way:
Il know bank where the wild thyme blows.
Where oxlps and the nodding violet grows
Quite over-canoped with luxurious woodhlne
With sweet musk roses and Win egian'ihe'
The woodbine, supposedly honeysuckle.
is trained on a trellis against the prlck
wall The musk roses and the egiantine,
probably says the gardens owner. no
more or less than sweet briar, make a
charming addition to the roses IN the
| garden.
There are many other roses. for al
| most every poet has paid some tribute to
| this queen of flowers. For instance.
InefP are SOIle loSt ptShNo -
Herrick's we'll known lines:
leather We rosehuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-hying.
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow may he dying.
Lilies. too hold a big place in the gar
den. And as it is impossible to know just
| what sort of lily many OF the poets refer
| red to when they used the term, the gar
dener has INDUCED her love Tor tness
flowers and has many varieties. And
there are butterflies. of course. as there
ought to be in garden of poetry Inc
garden owner accounts for these by the
lines in Bayley:
I'D be butterfly born in bower
Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
yellow cowslips'' and pale primroses'
| owe their presence in the garden to Mil
ton and so do jasmines and white
! pinks" which are represented by flowers
| varying from the tiny. spicy little Glove
pinks to big. long-stemmed carnations.
All about the border is a row of irises
! of all sorts-Spanish, Japanese. German
| and every other sort that grows. These
| too are Millions flowers. for in Comus
! he refers to these my sky robes spun out
| of Iris Woof,' when he is speaking oil
the rainbow.
| Another bulb that edges the border is
the daffodil-.a host of yellow daffodils,
that Wordsworth saw one day when he
| wandered lonely as a cloud"
| The crocus, too. dots the grass in early
spring. and behold! Our hostess of the
garden explains its presence in this way.
! You remember the quotation from Sol
! ONION: Il am the rose of Sharon" There
| is authority for thinking this was the
] crocus of Palestine, a little flower not un
| like our own hopeful forerunner OF
spring But for fear this supposition is
not we'll founded, the gardener has found
| room for a group of bushes of what we
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