Bvolutfon of Iborticulturc 



Justice Dudley also gives some remarka- 

 ble instances of vegetable growth. 



The gardens of Boston, in the fullest 

 acceptation of the term, combining the 

 useful and ornamental, the orchard, the 

 vegetable and flowering plants, were 

 found, in the first half of the eighteenth 

 century, mostly attached to the residences 

 of the more wealthy citizens. References 

 are occasionally and briefly made by 

 writers to a few which existed many years 

 previously. Thus the house of Governor 

 Winthrop, which stood nearly opposite 

 the foot of School Street, was with the 

 garden attached called "The Green." 

 We obtain a mere glimpse of the disposi- 

 tion and size of the garden from any ac- 

 counts extant. When the house was 

 destroyed by the British, they cut down a 

 fine row of buttonwoods that skirted the 

 enclosure. There were lanes which ran 

 up from the harbor's edge that bounded 

 Winthrop's garden, as also those of the 

 neighborhood. It was in this that the 

 Governor hospitably entertained D'Aul- 

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