6 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
newcomers; to its aboriginal inhabitants it was as old 
as the oldest, and the gardens of the red men were al¬ 
ready old, in some places at least, when the white men 
came. For that the Indians made gardens in the true 
sense, there can be no doubt; they are mentioned first 
by Barlow, who speaks of them very definitely in his 
account of the friendship which they formed with “the 
King’s brother,” Granganimeo by name. “He sent 
us divers kinds of fruits, melons, walnuts, cucumbers, 
gourds, pease and divers roots, and fruits very ex¬ 
cellent good, and of their country corn which is very 
white, fair and well tasted, and groweth three times 
in five months: in May they sow, in July they reap; 
in June they sow, in August they reap; in July they 
sow, in September they reap.” (Wherefore it is evi¬ 
dent they understood succession of crops quite as well 
as we do now.) “Only they cast the corn into the 
ground, breaking a little of the soft turf with a wooden 
mattock or pick-axe. Ourselves proved the soil, and 
put some of our peas in the ground, and in ten days 
they were of fourteen inches high. They have also 
beans very fair, of divers colors, and wonderful plenty, 
some growing naturally and some in their gardens; 
and so have they both wheat and oats.” 
Thirty years went by and then another Englishman, 
telling of another portion of the coast six hundred 
miles or more away to the north, verifies this reference 
