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| Herbert Wendell Gleason McFadden Garden - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1914 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Frances Benjamin Johnston Brandon Garden - Burrowsville, Virginia ca. 1925 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Frances Benjamin Johnston Brandon Garden - Burrowsville, Virginia ca. 1925 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Frances Benjamin Johnston University of Virginia - Charlottesville ca. 1925 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Louise Newton Notgrove Manor, Gloucestershire - Garden Steps and Gate 1929 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Louise Newton Notgrove Manor, Gloucestershire - Garden Steps and Gate 1929 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Louise Newton Notgrove Manor, Gloucestershire - Herbaceous Border 1929 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Louise Newton Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire - Yew Hedges 1929 lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Louise Newton Sutton Courtenay Manor, Oxfordshire 1929 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Barrett Garden - Augusta, Georgia ca. 1917 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Breeze Hill - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1928 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Goodwin Garden - Hartford, Connecticut ca. 1910 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Harvard Botanic Garden - Cambridge, Massachusetts ca. 1905 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Matinicock Point, Glen Cove, New York - Azalea Hedge ca. 1917 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Winterthur - New Castle County, Delaware ca. 1925 hand-colored lantern slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Flower Pictures inspired by Dutch School 3rd Prize Garden Club, Cooperstown, New York 1941 Kodachrome slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Modern Arrangement in Contemporary Container 3rd Prize Garden Club, Greenwich, Connecticut 1941 Kodachrome slide Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC |
from Dionysiaca
When Bacchus first beheld the desolate
And sleeping Ariadne, wonder straight
Was mixed with love in his great golden eyes;
He turned to his Bacchantes in surprise,
And said with guarded voice, – 'Hush! strike no more
Your brazen cymbals, keep those voices still
Of voice and pipe; and since ye stand before
Queen Cypris, let her slumber as she will!
And yet the cestus is not here in proof.
A Grace, perhaps, whom sleep has stolen aloof:
In which case, as the morning shines in view,
Wake this Aglaia! – yet in Naxos, who
Would veil a Grace so? Hush! And if that she
Were Hebe, which of all the gods can be
The pourer-out of wine? or if we think
She's like the shining moon by ocean's brink,
The guide of herds, – why, could she sleep without
Endymion's breath on her cheek? or if I doubt
Of silver-footed Thetis, used to tread
These shores, – even she (in reverence be it said)
Has no such rosy beauty to dress sleep
With the blue waves. The Loxian goddess might
Repose so from her hunting-toil aright
Beside the sea, since toil gives birth to sleep,
But who would find her with her tunic loose,
Thus? Stand off, Thracian! stand off! Do not leap,
Not this way! Leave that piping, since I choose,
O dearest Pan, and let Athenè rest!
And yet if she be Pallas . . . truly guessed . . .
Her lance is – where? her helm and argis – where?'
– As Bacchus closed, the miserable Fair
Awoke at last, sprang upward from the sands,
And gazing wild on the wild throng that stands
Around, around her, and no Theseus there! –
Her voice went moaning over shore and sea,
Beside the halcyon's cry; she called her love;
She named her hero, and raged maddeningly
Against the brine of waters; and above,
Sought the ship's track, and cursed the hours she slept;
And still the chiefest execrations kept
Against queen Paphia, mother of the ocean;
And cursed and prayed by times in her emotion
The winds all round.
– Nonnus (5th century AD), translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (before 1861)