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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 
