The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-20
'Bicentennial Flower Gardens :, Bring To Light Many Facts On Early American Floral Culture
Early Discoverers Met By Fragrant Blooms, Which in Turn Were Nutured to Their Present-day Efulgence By the Early Dutch Colonists.

much of the delicious spicy boughs as their boat wotfld hold.
 The gardens in the various parts | of the colonies as time went on, assumed individual characteristics The Spanish gardens in the south; the New Amsterdam gardens; the austere Puritan gardens, expressed unconsciously ~the characteristics of the colonies in which they grew. | A list of the old time flowers shows many familiar names. This year they will bloom again from one end of the country to the other, in back yards, in small gar den plots, in school gardens.
 Among these are the following: Achilla Ptarmica; double white lpellitory, yarrow; white. Aconitum Lycoctonum; wolf's bane; yellow. Aconitum Napellus; blue aconite; blue. Allium Molly; "great Molly of Homes; yellow. Allium Neapol- itanum; white alliunl; needs win- ter protection.
 Bellis Perennis; doNble daisy; pink or pinkish. Calceolaria Alba; Mary's slipper, lady's slipper; white. Calceolaria~ pinnata; small CT yellow lady's slipper. Calendula uOuDI6 SdL LoCli hldL lSOAa l (kitchen or pot marigold); yellow, ble marsh marigold; yellow. Cam ranula Medium; Canterbury bells, Marian's violet; blue,- white.
 Datura Stramoniurp; thorn apple or Jamestown weed; planted as a curiosity where not native; "in or chard as it takes up much room.' Datura fastuosa; violet, whittish within; double forms called "hose- in-hose." Delphinium ajacis lark spur; "blue, ash. rose, pale blush white."
 | Echinops exaltatus; great glove thistle; pale blue. Echinops sphae- rocephalus; lesser globe thistle. Err anthis hyemalis; winter aconite; bright yellow. Fritillaria aurea 1; checkered lily; yellow, small dis tinct checkers. Fritillaria latifo- lia; green and dark purple check CTS. Fritillaria lutea; greenish yell low, dull purple checkers.
 | GalanthuS nivalis; snowdrop; white sealed with heart-shaped green" Genista tinctoria; dyer's greenwood; yellow. Gentiana acau- lis; gentian of spring or gentian- ella; blue. Gentiana 1utea; great yellow gentian; yellow; Ca me- dicinable plant".) Geranium pra- tense; meadow cranesbill; blue, large, geranium Ibericum violet. | Hedysarum coronarium; fred satten" flower, or French honey suckle; red. Hedysarum coronar- ium, album; white-this not com- mon. Helichrysum arenarium; goldy-locks or immortelles; yellow, everlasting. Iberis amara; candy tuft; white. Iberis umbellata; pur- plish. Iris Chamaeris; dwarf fiower-de-luce; bright yellow. Iris Chamaeiris, Italica; dark purple. Iris Florentina; "orris' root iris; white, shadowed with lavender. Iris Persica; "bulbous" iris; lilac take bulbs up in summer.
 1 Lathyrus latifolius; everlasting pea; rose red. Lsathyrus latifolius, splendens; dark purple and red. ILeucojum aestivum; summer snow flake; white tipped with green. Matthiola incana; stock gillifower; white, rose, crimson. purple, and mixed; double, Mimosa pudica; sensitive plant or sensible" plant; grown for curious sensitive foliage. Narcissus Jonquilla: jonquil; yell low. Narcissus pecitcus Narcissus: single and double; white.
 Paeonia officinalis; peony; blush, carnation, red, purple, red striped with white all double. Papver Rhocas; corn poppy; bluish white. red, scarlet, purple, half and half white and scarlet. Ranunculus aconitifulius; crowfeet; white, Ran unculus aconitifelius; flore-pleno; fari maids of France, fair maids of Kent, white bachelors button; dou- ble white. Scabiosa atropurpurea; sweet scabious; white, red, "red Indian" Scilla amoena; star hyacinth; blue. Tagetes erecta; African marigold; Iemon-yellow to deep orange; Ia getas patula;. French marigold; yellow marked with red to almost a pure red. valeriano officinalis; vaierian; whitish, pink and laven- der, Verbascum blattaria "mul- lein, moth mullein"; white.