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• Old-Time Gardens by Alice Morse Earle. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III VARIED GARDENS FAIR " And all without were walkes and alleys dight With divers trees enrang'd in even rankes; And here and there were pleasant arbors pight And shadie seats, and sundry
flowering bankes To sit and rest the walkers wearie shankes." — Faerie itfrie, Edmund Spenser. ANY simple forms of gardens were common besides the enclosed front yard; and as wealth poured in on the colonies, the beautiful gardens so much thought of in England
were copied here, especially by wealthy merchants, as is noted in the first chapter of this book, and by the provincial governors and their little courts; the garden of Governor Hutchinson, in Miltord, Massachusetts, is stately still and little changed. English gardens,
at the time of the settlement of America, had passed beyond the time when, as old (iervayse Markham said, " Of all the best Ornaments used in our English gardens, Knots and Mazes are the most ancient."

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