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they carried with them a taste for the 

 beautiful, a taste which was not only in- 

 nate, but which had been promoted dur- 

 ing the journeys between the seaboard 

 and the Nipmuck country, when as they 

 slowly accompanied their household 

 goods, they had ample opportunity to 

 observe the grandeur of the primeval 

 forests and the wonderful vegetation 

 which they contained : the shrubs and 

 myriads of plants clothed in brilliant 

 colors, the ferns that grew in the greatest 

 luxuriance, the climbing vines, especially 

 the grape, its delicious fruit so familiar 

 and welcome to them, hanging in abund- 

 ant clusters, and the great variety of 

 tempting wild berries. The taste for the 

 beautiful was manifested by them within 

 the city, not only in the culture of lovely 

 flowers and fine vegetables, but of choice 

 fruit, especially of pears, some trees of 

 which remained in the gardens of the 

 Faneuils and Johonnots until the man- 

 sions were destroyed. A refugee, in a 

 letter from Boston to his family in 

 in 



