DESIGN 175 



square and circle are preserved to his critical and exact 

 eye without a flaw. 



In New England, as we have already seen, there 

 was very little attempt at garden making. They 

 "gardened" but made no permanent gardens. In so 

 far as there was design, however, it embodied what 

 had been learned from the Dutch during the sojourn 

 in Holland. A few of the little front yards had a 

 little square bed on either side of the walk which led 

 up to the front door ; a very few others that were larger 

 had on each side of this walk a border, perhaps, with 

 a bed beyond — or four little square beds, centred on 

 a little round bed in the middle, all very tiny and 

 choking with the boxwood as it grew. Larger grounds 

 were planned and planted practically as grounds are 

 to-day — that is, as it happened. New England had 

 and has lovely gardens, but the earliest offer nothing 

 original nor very interesting. 



Finally there were the Quakers, with their long, rest- 

 ful horizontal lines repeated everywhere. Penns- 

 bury gives a striking example of these in the three long 

 rows of walnuts running across the front, down near the 

 river; in the long house — sixty feet it extended — ^with 

 the forty-foot court at the end, and then beyond this the 

 long group of offices. Altogether the line of buildings 

 must have extended quite two hundred feet or more; for 

 house and court were a hundred, then brew- and malt- 



