6 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 



newcomers; to its aboriginal inhabitants it was as old 

 as the oldest, and the gardens of the red men were al- 

 ready old, in some places at least, when the white men 

 came. For that the Indians made gardens in the true 

 sense, there can be no doubt; they are mentioned first 

 by Barlow, who speaks of them very definitely in his 

 account of the friendship which they formed with "the 

 King's brother," Granganimeo by name. "He sent 

 us divers kinds of fruits, melons, walnuts, cucumbers, 

 gourds, pease and divers roots, and fruits very ex- 

 cellent good, and of their country corn which is very 

 white, fair and well tasted, and groweth three times 

 in five months: in May they sow, in July they reap; 

 in June they sow, in August they reap; in July they 

 sow, in September they reap." (Wherefore it is evi- 

 dent they understood succession of crops quite as well 

 as we do now.) "Only they cast the corn into the 

 ground, breaking a little of the soft turf with a wooden 

 mattock or pick-axe. Ourselves proved the soil, and 

 put some of our peas in the ground, and in ten days 

 they were of fourteen inches high. They have also 

 beans very fair, of divers colors, and wonderful plenty, 

 some growing naturally and some in their gardens; 

 and so have they both wheat and oats." 



Thirty years went by and then another Englishman, 

 telling of another portion of the coast six hundred 

 miles or more away to the north, verifies this reference 



