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[[underlined]] MASSACHUSETTS [[underlined]]

[[underlined]] Indian Hill Farm, ^[[In]] West Newburyport, Mass.[[underlined]]

Remote from the city, approached by roads winding through rocky New England pastures, lies Indian Hill Farm, which was deeded to the Poore family in 1654. The present house was commenced in 1688 and has been added to each generation. It was built when Elizabethan Englishmen were adventuring to the west, and^[[,]] unconsciously or consciously, as is the way of pioneer Englishmen the world over, endeavoring to transplant as much as possible of England to the New World.

[[underlined]] 1. [[underlined]] The garden was planned early in the last century by Benjamin Poore assisted by an English gardener.

[[underlined]] 2. [[underlined]] It has been gradually cut down in size and now consists of a number of what might be called floral ante-rooms, surrounded by clipped hedges of arbor vitae and one long, broad garden path running between very deep borders of flowers, and flanked also by hedges of arbor vitae. Here, enchained in honeysuckle, stands a carved wooden Indian, once the figurehead on the ship Black Hawk.

[[underlined]] Governor Hutchinson's Garden, Milton, Mass. ^[[1743]] [[/underlined]]

"A garden that has been cared for, loved, and lived in by successive generations for nearly two hundred years". Such a garden has an atmosphere of its own.

[[underlined]] 3. [[/underlined]] Governor Hutchinson, the last royal governor of Massachusetts, bought for himself many acres, and on a hill, commanding a view of river, sea, and hills, built his home and laid out his garden. ^[[in Milton Mass in 1743]]

He planted trees, orchards and grape-vines, and built a ha-ha at the