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cases for fine illustrations of landscape 

 gardening. 



In 1662, that portion of Dorchester, then 

 called Unguety and afterwards Milton, 

 became the locality for many fine estates 

 which have been well known for their 

 horticultural products and for their pleas- 

 ant rural surroundings. Here, before the 

 Revolution, was the summer residence 

 of Governor Thomas Hutchinson, cele- 

 brated for its appointments. Perhaps no 

 section of our suburbs of equal size is 

 better cultivated, and nowhere is the 

 union of wealth with country felicity 

 more complete than is now seen in the 

 possessions of the Forbeses, Kidders, 

 Peabodys, Cunninghams, Russells, and 

 others. 



Muddy River, Brookline, was also early 

 and widely known for the horticultural 

 advantages which it offered. Wood, in 

 his New England Prospect, speaks of 

 this place with the other hamlets as en- 

 circling the " old plain neck" of Boston 

 " with an unfading wreath of bloom and 

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