io6 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
No description of his gardens, which were “univer¬ 
sally admired for the justness of their design and the 
perfection of their productions,” is left, unhappily; but 
nowhere in New England was horticulture carried to 
so high a degree of perfection, if the enthusiasm of a 
contemporary has not exceeded his veracity; and no 
doubt the mall adjoining his grounds “made in 1792 
and shaded by handsome rows of trees,” was a “work 
of neatness and taste; ... at once convenient 
and ornamental to the town.” 
Another garden of the end of that century, in Bos¬ 
ton proper, entered in the “Book of Possessions” as 
belonging to Gamaliel Wayte, is described with a fair 
amount of detail. The place, which lay lengthwise 
on the street, was inclosed by a fence ten feet high, 
solid and paneled for some distance up from the 
ground, with the top open for observation abroad. 
This open top was made of inch-square vertical 
“slats,” capped by a rail and set far enough apart to 
see through. A large double gate for carriages was 
at one end of the grounds, with a small one for visit¬ 
ors afoot at the other, near the house. From the 
“front gate”—probably this small footgate—there 
was a vista of three hundred feet which took in the 
court and the garden, closing with the summer-house 
at the garden’s far end. The court was paved with 
white and blue cobblestones—ancient Spanish gardens 
