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[[underlined]]RHODE ISLAND[[/underline]]

[[underlined]]Governor Green Garden[[/underlined]], [[underlined]]East Greenwich, R.I.[[/underlined]] (1760)

A number of very old garden features may be found in the "Governor Green" estate in East Greenwich, R.I.

[[underlined]]19[[/underlined]]. One of the oldest is the "Long Walk" which extends from the house north along the top of the terrace. It is bordered by shrubbery bearing white flowers only, the whim of the bride from Charleston who married Ray Greene a hundred years ago and wished to have a garden all in white. There she used to stroll with Longfellow at dusk with white moths fluttering among the ghostly white blooms. This long walk ends at the gateway of the old burying-ground of the family.

In this secluded spot generations of Greenes are laid to rest, sheltered from the busy world by a barrier of evergreens, Norway spruce, arbor vitae and pine.

[[underlined]]20[[/underlined]]. The more elaborate formal garden lies to the west of the house and it is not known with certainty who planted it. In 1758 the house and estate passed into the hands of William Greene, and when he was governor of Rhode Island it may be that his wife created the elaborate geometric design. This design is much the same as it was in the beginning, for during two hundred and eighty-six years the land has belonged to the Gorton-Greene-Roelker line, which has consistently maintained the great American tradition of gentle living and practical patriotism. Mrs. William Greene Roelker now cares for it with the same inborn instinct for gardening.