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to have had a flower garden there and at his home, 

 White Hall, at the Battery, for he had forty or fifty 

 negro slaves who were kept at work on his estate. 

 In the city of New York many fine formal gardens 

 lingered, on what are now our most crowded streets, 

 till within the memory of persons now living. One 

 is described as full of " Paus bloemen of all hues, 

 Laylocks, and tall May Roses and Snowballs inter- 

 mixed with choice vegetables and herbs all bounded 

 and hemmed in by huge rows of neatly-clipped Box- 

 edgings." 



An evidence of increase in garden luxury in 

 New York is found in the advertisement of one 

 Theophilus Hardenbrook, in 1750, a practical sur- 

 veyor and architect, who had an evening school 

 for teaching architecture. He designed pavilions, 

 summer-houses, and garden seats, and "Green-houses 

 for the preservation of Herbs with winding Funnels 

 through the walls so as to keep them warm." A 

 picture of the green-house of James Beekman, of 

 New York, 1764, still exists, a primitive little affair. 

 The first glass-house in North America is believed 

 to be one built in Boston for Andrew Faneuil, who 

 died in 1737. 



Mrs. Anne Grant, writing of her life near Albany 

 in the middle of the eighteenth century, gives a very 

 good description of the Schuyler garden. Skulls 

 of domestic animals on fence posts, would seem 

 astounding had I not read of similar decorations 

 in old Continental gardens. Vines grew over these 

 grisly fence-capitals and birds built their nests in 

 them, so in time the Dutch housewife's peaceful 



