^Evolution of tborticulture 



ground, seem to mark the locality of a 

 very old settlement * ' a settlement busy, 

 featless, and well fed, when Plymouth 

 colonists were defending themselves 

 against Indians and starvation. " 1 



No mention is made of the cultivation 

 of cereals, as the colony was well fos- 

 tered by Mason and Gorges, who were 

 men of means, and spent freely in behalf 

 of the early settlers, although actuated by 

 great expectations of amassing wealth for 

 themselves. 



Josselyn, in his account of his first 

 voyage to New England, says: "The 

 Twelfth day of July, 1638, after I had 

 taken my leave of Mr. Maverick and 

 some other Gentlemen, I took boat for 

 the Eastern parts of the Countrie, and 

 arrived at Black point in the Province of 

 Main, which is 150 miles from Boston. 

 . . . The Countrey all along as I 

 sailed being no other than a meer wilder- 

 ness, here and there by the Sea-side a 



1 " Old Town of Berwick," New England 

 Magazine, July, 1894. S. O. Jewett. 



