Old Time Gardens 



CHAPTER I 



COLONIAL GARDEN-MAKING 



" There is not a softer trait to be found in the character of those 

 stern men than that they should have been sensible of these flower- 

 roots clinging among the fibres of their rugged hearts, and felt the 

 necessity of bringing them over sea, and making them hereditary in 

 the new land." 



— American Note-book, Nathaniel Hawthorne. 



FTER ten wearisome weeks of 

 travel across an unknown sea, 

 to an equally unknown world, 

 the group of Puritan men and 

 women who were the founders 

 of Boston neared their Land of 

 Promise ; and their noble leader, 

 John Winthrop, wrote in his 

 Journal that "we had now fair Sunshine Weather 

 and so pleasant a sweet Aire as did much refresh us, 

 and there came a smell off the Shore like the Smell 

 of a Garden." 



A Smell of a Garden was the first welcome to our 

 ancestors from their new home ; and a pleasant and 

 perfect emblem it was of the life that awaited them. 



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