THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



ton Harbor, and granted to Governor 

 Winthrop in 1632 for this special purpose. 



About the year 1630 the Reverend 

 Francis Higginson, writing back to Eng- 

 land from the settlement at Salem, said that 

 "Our Governor (Endicott) hath already 

 planned a vineyard with great hopes of 

 increase. Also mulberries, plums, raspber- 

 ries, currants, chestnuts, filberts, walnuts, 

 small nuts, huckleberries, haws of white 

 thorn." 



Before the War of Independence came 

 there were some really notable gardens in 

 New England, and some almost magnificent 

 estates in Virginia and Maryland. John 

 Bartram's garden at Philadelphia dates 

 back to 1728, and is still preserved. Mount 

 Vernon, the garden of George Washington, 

 was planted at about the same time. 



The colonial gardens were almost nec- 

 essarily co-ordinated in their development 

 with colonial architecture, and it is now 

 understood that colonial architecture 

 reached a comparatively , high artistic level. 

 The "colonial style" in architecture has had 

 a great vogue in recent years, a favor which 

 has been shared to some extent by colonial 

 gardens also. If the gardens have been 



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