
Gardening on Cape (Cod 
When Bartholomew Gosnold, sailing out of Fal- 
mouth, England, landed in what is now Falmouth, 
Massachusetts, in 1602, he said of this section, “‘It 
is replenised with fair fields and in them fragrant 
flowers; also meadows, hedged in with stately 
groves.”’ Gardening on Cape Cod was even then 
productive. 
The Cape is particularly fortunate in its year- 
‘round mildness of climate. Summers are cooler and 
winters less severe because the Cape is almost en- 
tirely surrounded by the sea. 
People and plants alike benefit by this pleasant 
state of affairs. Through the years more and more 
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