=========================================================== | OPENING HOUR. | CLOSING HOUR. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dandelion | 5-6 A.M. | 8-9 P.M. Mouse-ear Hawkweed | 8 A.M. | 2 P.M. Sow Thistle | 5 A.M. | 11-12 P.M. Yellow Goat-beard | 3-5 A.M. | 9-10 (?) White Water Lily | 7 A.M. | 7 P.M. Day Lily | 5 A.M. | 7-8 P.M. Convolvulus | 5-6 A.M. | Mallow | 9-10 A.M. | Pimpernel | 7-8 A.M. | Portulaca | 9-10 A.M. | Pink (_Dianthus prolifer_) | 8 A.M. | 1 P.M. Succory | 4-5 A.M. | Calendula | 7 A.M. | 3-4 P.M. =========================================================== Of course these hours would vary in this country. And I must say very frankly that I think we should always be behind time if we trusted to Flora's Horologe. This floral clock of Linnaeus was calculated for Upsala, Sweden; De Candolle gave another for Paris, and one has been arranged for our Eastern states. CHAPTER XVIII GARDEN FURNISHINGS "Furnished with whatever may make the place agreeable, melancholy, and country-like." --_Forest Trees_, JOHN EVELYN, 1670. Quaint old books of garden designers show us that much more was contained in a garden two centuries ago, than now; it had many more adjuncts, more furnishings; a very full list of them has been given by Batty Langley in his _New Principles of Gardening_, etc., 1728. Some seem amusing--as haystacks and woodpiles, which he terms "rural enrichments." Of water adornments there were to be purling streams, basins, canals, fountains, cascades, cold baths. There were to be aviaries, hare warrens, pheasant grounds, partridge grounds, dove-cotes, beehives, deer paddocks, sheep walks, cow pastures, and "manazeries" (menageries?); physic gardens, orchards, bowling-greens, hop gardens, orangeries, melon grounds, vineyards, parterres, fruit yards, nurseries, sun-dials, obelisks, statues, cabinets, etc., decorated the garden walks. There were to be land gradings of mounts, winding valleys, dales, terraces, slopes, borders, open plains, labyrinths, wildernesses, "serpentine meanders," "rude-coppices," precipices, amphitheatres. His "serpentine meanders" had large opening spaces at proper distances, in one of which might be placed a small fruit garden, a "cone of evergreens," or a "Paradice-Stocks,"--about which latter mysterious garden adornment I think we must be content to remain in ignorance, since he certainly has given us ample variety to choose from without it. Other "landscapists" placed in their gardens old ruins, misshapen rocks, and even dead trees, in order to look "natural."