HORTICULTURE 



coasts to obedience to English husbandry. What with 

 their garden beans, and Indian beans, and pease j^ 





lettuce: tli.n 

 pot-herl.>: .n 

 clary, .•iiii-<c-. 

 royal, toi- swi 

 pions and niel 

 fruits of the < 

 to be so well 

 1 



flowers, la 

 call this h 

 among oui 

 ers, which 



gland,' says Higginson in 1G29) ; 

 mips, and carrots ('our turnips, 

 <■ both bigger and sweeter than 

 in England,' says the same rev- 

 ■aiibages and asparagus,— both 

 \c. ,-.liii-h ; Tli.ir radishes and 

 ivlry. i-lMivil. and marigold, for 

 :<■, tii\iiic. ^a\'>T-\- uf both kinds, 

 liaiMlir-. ^|i..-aniiiut, and penny- 

 -ii'.t tn iiHiitiun the Indian pom- 

 iia ri t . r- ^c| Hashes, 'and other odde 

 r!if !ir-iiKimed of which had got 

 a]iioiiu' the settlers, when Josse- 

 Jyn wroTp in ii>,j. inar. what lie oalls 'the ancient New- 

 England stan.liiii.' di^ir (we may call it so now!) was 

 .1. tinally, their pleasant, familiar 

 :tu,n and hollyhocks and satin ('we 

 s..rt'olke, sattin,' says Gerard; 'and, 

 it is called honestie' ) and gillyflow- 

 nks as well, and dear English roses, 

 <, possibly, hedges of eglantine,— 

 surely the gardens of New England, fifty years after the 

 settlement of the country, were as well stocked as they 

 were a limidiad aii'i liftv vears after. Nor were the first 

 planters h.,,- lic-hiTihliand in frait. Even at his first 

 visit, in li;:i'.i, ..ur aiulH.r was treated with 'half a score 

 of very fair piiiiuii^.' from the Governor's Island in 

 Boston Harher; tlmugh there was then, he says, 'not 

 one apple tree nor pear planted yet in no part of the 

 countrey but upon that island.' But he has a much bet- 

 ter account to give in 1(371: 'The quinces, cherries 

 damsons, set the dames a work. Marmalad and pre 

 served damsons is to be met with in every house. On 

 fruit trees prosper abundantly, — apple trees, pear trees 

 quince trees, cherry trees, plum trees, barberry trees 

 I have observed, with admiration, that the kernels sown 

 or the s ccor planted produce a f a r and good fru t 

 witho t graft ng i the tree fro n whence they were 

 taken The co ntrev replen 1 ed w h fa r and large 

 orcha 1 1 w tl 11 Mr \\ 1 t ag s 



(otwl I I 1 I I I 1 I lat 



orcha 1 

 berrj 1 1 



to have co ne 



the fir t settle 



Engl h gar len 



ti ne St 11 pers s 



(Pig 10 8) The f reg ng I 





I 1 from th s 



I ost of our 



1 t Jos eljn s 



n New EnglanI 

 re narks bh w that 

 i early 1 ro gl t the fam I ar home plants to 

 the new countr\ and there are man^ collateral evidences 

 of the same character There was long and arduous ex 

 penmenting with plants and niethcds Several things 

 which were tried on a 1 irge scale failed so completely 



eithi 



I t 1 ts tommercial 



I k tl e « ine grape 



1 ( d onU as a 



1 i < in tobacco 



taple crops 



I eans, pumpkins and 



covered They soon 



li were introduced by 



i others found peaches 



1 ar Is of peaches and apples 



•^ew \ ork by Sullivan s raid 



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which could not be surpassed in the irrigated and well- 

 cultivated gardens of Spain." For critical notes on the 

 plants cultivated by the American aborigines, see Gray 

 and Trumbull, Anier. .b.urii. ■.! S.-ien.i-, vd. ■.'.") (April, 

 May), vol. 20 (August i. 



"Fruit-growiug aiii.iu- ihe lihlians „( lircnx'ia and 

 Alabama in the early lii~T.ir\ ^i' ihr-e sTai<->." wi-ites 

 Berckmans, "is deni' 

 peaches which the In 

 period found growing 

 taw villages. It is ui 

 long trips to other in 



rge quantity ot 

 le early colonial 

 rokee and Choc- 

 ans often made 

 : various articles 



1077 Earhest 



American plant 



of their making and thus the seed from those peach 

 trees was undouhtedh procured from the Florida In 

 dians who in turn piocurt 1 these tr m the tiees 

 planted bj the Spanish exj 1 II] I t | t 



' Indian peaches ttund thi I ^ I 



ogmzed by the down^ ai 1 | I 1 | | 1 



barkonthe jounggr \\tli w I 1 



gradualh disserainit 1 1 tl I 



was quite extensn I I 



dians in the mount i I I 



North Carolina 1 h I 



11 1 k h unkn 1 t tl I I I 



gna (nl (I 



De&ot It 1 II I 



abumUnt iu 1 \\M rtn le 1 ilum ii 1 \s ihnit tiees 

 were growing luiuiiantly thioughout the c unfiy at 

 taming a size and beaut) without planting or pruning, 



