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Old Time Gardens 



garden an orchard led to the wheat fields, which 

 stretched down to the broad Connecticut River. All 

 flowers thrived there, both in the Box-bordered beds 

 and in the wild garden, perhaps because the morning 

 mists from the river helped out the heavy buckets 

 of water from the well during the hot summer 



"The Pearl." 



weeks. Even in winter the wild garden was beauti- 

 ful from the brilliant Bittersweet which hung from 

 every tree. 



Here Ambrosia was plentiful, but is plentiful no 

 longer ; and Walpole garden lovers seek seeds of 

 it from the Worcester garden. I think it dies out 

 generally when all the weeding and garden care is 

 done by gardeners; they assume that the little 



