CHAPTER III 
VARIED GARDENS FAIR 
Ci And all without were walkes and alleys dight 
With divers trees enrang’d in even rankes ; 
And here and there were pleasant arbors pight 
And shadie seats, and sundry flowering bankes 
To sit and rest the walkers wearie shankes.’ , 
— Faerie Fhteene, Edmund Spenser. 
ANY simple forms of gardens 
were common besides the en- 
closed front yard; and as wealth 
poured in on the colonies, the 
beautiful gardens so much thought 
of in England were copied here, 
especially by wealthy merchants, as is noted in the 
first chapter of this book, and by the provincial 
governors and their little courts ; the garden of 
Governor Hutchinson, in Milford, Massachusetts, 
is stately still and little changed. 
English gardens, at the time of the settlement of 
America, had passed beyond the time when, as old 
Gervayse Markham said, “ Of all the best Orna- 
ments used in our English gardens, Knots and 
Mazes are the most ancient. ” A maze was a 
placing of low garden hedges of Privet, Box, or 
Hyssop, usually set in concentric circles which en- 
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