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Old Time Gardens 



old stone walls are the pride of the place ; and the 

 carefully kept garden seems set in a beautiful frame 

 of soft gray stones and flowering vines. These walls 

 would be more beautiful still if our climate would 

 let us have the wall gardens of old England, but 



The Guardian of the Garden. 



everything here becomes too dry in summer for wall 

 gardens to flourish. 



Rhode Island farmers for two centuries have 

 cleared and sheltered the scanty soil of their state by 

 blasting the ledges, and gathering the great stones 



