nd:--

"Their Gardens are supplied with such European Plants and Herbs as
are necessary for the Kitchen, and they begin to be beautiful and
adorned with such Flowers as to the Smell or Eye are pleasing or
agreeable, viz.: the Rose, Tulip, Carnation, Lilly, etc."

By the middle of the century many exquisite gardens could be seen in
Charleston, and they were the pride of Southern colonial dames. Those of
Mrs. Lamboll, Mrs. Hopton, and Mrs. Logan were the largest. The latter
flower-lover in 1779, when seventy years old, wrote a treatise on
flower-raising called _The Gardener's Kalendar_, which was read and
used for many years. Mrs. Laurens had another splendid garden. Those
Southern ladies and their gardeners constantly sent specimens to
England, and received others in return. The letters of the day,
especially those of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, ever interested in
floriculture and arboriculture, show a constant exchange with English
flower-lovers.

Beverley wrote of Virginia, in 1720: "A garden is nowhere sooner made
than there." William Byrd and other travellers, a few years later, saw
many beautiful terraced gardens in Virginian homes. Mrs. Anne Grant
writes at length of the love and care the Dutch women of the past
century had for flowers:--

"The care of plants such as needed peculiar care or skill to rear
them, was the female province. Every one in town or country had a
garden. Into the garden no foot of man intruded after it was dug in
the spring. I think I see yet what I have so often beheld--a
respectable mistress of a family going out to her garden, in an
April morning, with her great calash, her little painted basket of
seeds, and her rake over her shoulders, to her garden of labours. A
woman in very easy circumstances and abundantly gentle in form and
manners would sow and plant and rake incessantly."

In New York, before the Revolution, were many beautiful gardens, such
as that of Madam Alexander on Broad Street, where in their proper season
grew "paus bloemen of all hues, laylocks and tall May roses and
snowballs intermixed with choice vegetables and herbs all bounded and
hemmed in by huge rows of neatly clipped box edgings." We have a pretty
picture also, in the letters of Catharine Rutherfurd, of an entire
company gathering rose-leaves in June in Madam Clark's garden, and
setting the rose-still at work to turn their sweet-scented spoils into