238 Old Time Gardens 
garden an orchard led to the wheat fields, which 
stretched down to the broad Connecticut River. All 
flowers thrived there, both in the Box-bordered beds 
and in the wild garden, perhaps because the morning 
mists from the river helped out the heavy buckets 
of water from the well during the hot summer 
“The Pearl.” 
weeks. Even in winter the wild garden was beauti- 
ful from the brilliant Bittersweet which hung from 
every tree. 
Here Ambrosia was plentiful, but is plentiful no 
longer; and Walpole garden lovers seek seeds of 
it from the Worcester garden. I think it dies out 
generally when all the weeding and garden care is 
done by gardeners ; they assume that the little 
