ON AMERICAN LANDSCAPE 

 GARDENING 



0ARDENS of no mean sort flourished 

 in America almost from the establish- 

 ment of the first colonies. Even 

 before the Pilgrims on the Massachusetts 

 coast or the settlers at Jeimestown had 

 made themselves quite secure from the 

 attacks of the Indians, they began to make 

 their dwellings homelike with such com- 

 forts as their hsuids could fashion. As soon 

 as the colonies became fixed and in a certain 

 degree prosperous, taste in the matter of 

 gardens developed rapidly. The very 

 earliest shipments of supplies from the old 

 country included quantities of garden 

 seeds, plants and fruit trees. The native 

 fruits were also early impressed into culti- 

 vation. It is probable that the native 

 grapes were grown by Governor Winthrop 

 of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was 

 assessed a yearly tax of a hogshead of wine 

 as early as 1634. This was from the vine- 

 yard planted on Governor's Island in Bos- 



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