DESIGN 
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square and circle are preserved to his critical and exact 
eye without a flaw. 
In New England, as we have already seen, there 
was very little attempt at garden making. They 
“gardened” but made no permanent gardens. In so 
far as there was design, however, it embodied what 
had been learned from the Dutch during the sojourn 
in Holland. A few of the little front yards had a 
little square bed on either side of the walk which led 
up to the front door; a very few others that were larger 
had on each side of this walk a border, perhaps, with 
a bed beyond—or four little square beds, centred on 
a little round bed in the middle, all very tiny and 
choking with the boxwood as it grew. Larger grounds 
were planned and planted practically as grounds are 
to-day—that is, as it happened. New England had 
and has lovely gardens, but the earliest offer nothing 
original nor very interesting. 
Finally there were the Quakers, with their long, rest¬ 
ful horizontal lines repeated everywhere. Penns- 
bury gives a striking example of these in the three long 
rows of walnuts running across the front, down near the 
river; in the long house—sixty feet it extended—with 
the forty-foot court at the end, and then beyond this the 
long group of offices. Altogether the line of buildings 
must have extended quite two hundred feet or more; for 
house and court were a hundred, then brew- and malt- 
