'Two Nantucket Gardens 
THE SANFORD PLACE FROM THE STREET NANTUCKET 
closely together 
like ships in a 
haven, and their 
owners looked 
with unenvious 
eyes upon the 
acres of unoccu¬ 
pied moorland in 
the interior of the 
island. Idle mari¬ 
time interests of 
the people and 
the unproductive 
soil gave little 
encouragem ent 
to farming. So 
sterile was the soil 
that many garden 
plots were sup¬ 
plied with rich 
earth brought in 
ships from the 
fallow lands across 
the water to the 
north. However 
it may be ex¬ 
plained, Nan¬ 
tucket was appar¬ 
ently deficient in 
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PLAN OF THE SANFORD PLACE 
gardens as com¬ 
pared with con¬ 
temporary towns 
upon the coast of 
the mainland, if 
we are to take as 
evidence the 
singular dearth of 
gardens existing 
to-day. Disap¬ 
pointing though 
Nantucket gar¬ 
dens are in point 
of numbers, they 
possess the charm 
of the best New 
England gardens 
to a remarkable 
degree. This is 
to be attributed 
perhaps to the 
mildness of the 
island’s climate 
which allows 
many of the less 
hardy plants a 
more luxuriant 
growth than is 
possible upon the 
