^Evolution of Horticulture 



by Johnson, Wood, and Josselyn, as these 

 plantations presented themselves to their 

 inspection between 1635 and 1663, have 

 been given in our previous pages. These 

 two localities were noticed for their early 

 attention to the culture of fruit. It was 

 not until the colonial times that there is 

 allusion to an estate which possessed a 

 garden of special note, and this belonged 

 to Governor Oliver, and was laid out in 

 the style which was still common in Bug- 

 land. Amid those of note in Dorchester, 

 for their horticultural tastes and for their 

 success in the cultivation of fruit, espe- 

 cially of the pear, may be mentioned the 

 Downers, Voses, Sumners, Wilders, and 

 in Roxbury, prior to the present century, 

 Judge John Lowell, John Prince, Aaron 

 Williams, Rufus Amory, Samuel Ward, 

 and Samuel Walker. The gardens, or- 

 chards, farms, and nurseries of many of 

 these were long noted for the production 

 of new varieties of fruit, vegetables, and 

 flowers, for the introduction of green- 

 houses and conservatories, and in a few 

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