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Old Time Gardens 
old stone walls are the pride of the place ; and the 
carefully kept garden seems set in a beautiful frame 
of soft gray stones and flowering vines. These walls 
would be more beautiful still if our climate would 
let us have the wall gardens of old England, but 
The Guardian of the Garden. 
everything here becomes too dry in summer for wall 
gardens to flourish. 
Rhode Island farmers for two centuries have 
cleared and sheltered the scanty soil of their state by 
blasting the ledges, and gathering the great stones 
