Old Time Gardens 
CHAPTER I 
COLONIAL GARDEN-MAKING 
(( There is not a softer trait to be found in the character of those 
stern men than that they should have been sensible of these flower- 
roots clinging among the fibres of their rugged hearts, and felt the 
necessity of bringing them over sea, and making them hereditary in 
the new land.” 
— American Note-book , Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
FTER ten wearisome weeks of 
travel across an unknown sea, 
to an equally unknown world, 
the group of Puritan men and 
women who were the founders 
of Boston neared their Land of 
Promise ; and their noble leader, 
John Winthrop, wrote in his 
Journal that cc we had now fair Sunshine Weather 
and so pleasant a sweet Aire as did much refresh us, 
and there came a smell oft the Shore like the Smell 
of a Garden/' 
A Smell of a Garden was the first welcome to our 
ancestors from their new home ; and a pleasant and 
perfect emblem it was of the life that awaited them. 
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