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“found its way into the trimmest gardens; the green¬ 
swards and arbours were 'powdered’ with daises.” 
And Chaucer wrote of it in superlatives: 
“The daysie or elles the eye of day 
The emperise and flour of flowres alle.” 
It is not native to England either, however, but came 
from the Continent, or perhaps by way of the Con¬ 
tinent from an original home still further east, in 
northern Asia. 
The last “Will and Tes^m* of John Endecott 
Senior late of Salem now of Boston, made the second 
day of the third moneth called May 1659” gives to 
his wife, “all that my ffarme called Orchard lying 
wi th in the bound of Salem together with the Dwell¬ 
ing House, outhouses, Barnes, stables, Cowhouses, & 
all other building & appurtenances thereunto belong¬ 
ing & appertayning and all the Orchards, nurseries of 
fruit trees, gardens, fences, meadows and salt marsh.” 
Evidently the “ffarme called Orchard” was a very 
complete establishment, run on the highest efficiency 
basis. The nursery of fruit trees would prove this, 
if the other features enumerated left any room for 
doubt; but even to the salt marsh it is all just what 
it should be. The latter was an important part of 
the farm in the early days, the hay from it being: 
highly prized. 
