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[[underlined]]The Garden of Mrs. Edward Marvell, Tiverton, R. I.[[/underlined]]

In old Tiverton, on the hundred acre farm of Mrs. Edward Marvell, the garden is surrounded with a wall laid up with stones dug out of the garden soil two hundred and thirty-nine years ago.

[[underlined]]24.[[/underlined]] This garden has never been without its growing plants and is today, as the picture shows, made up of the two long borders with the main path leading toward the old house, for practical purposes an ideal arrangement where the land is flat and rectangular.

[[underlined]]De Wolf Summer-house, Bristol, R. I.[[/underlined]] (1800)

Another De Wolf whose wealth was considerable was Charles, and he built a great house in Bristol about 1800. The gardens ran down to the water, and tradition says there was a raised terrace in front of the house and on that terrace a most beautiful formal garden.

[[underlined]]25.[[/underlined]] We [[underlined]]know[[/underlined]] there was a "summer-house", for when the mansion was burned to the ground in 1852, the summer-house was moved to the grounds of Captain Gardener's residence. Later it was moved to "Linden Place" on the main street of Bristol where it may be seen by any passer-by.

[[underlined]]The Babbitt-Morice Garden, Bristol, R. I.[[/underlined]] (1810)

[[underlined]]26.[[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]]The[[/strikethrough]] ^[[This]] original garden ^[[in Bristol]] was laid out in 1810 when Captain Morice and his wife returned from a trip to France. [[strikethrough]]This first garden[[/strikethrough]] ^[[It]] was full of little box-bordered beds in the shapes of hearts and diamonds and crescents, but it was ruined by a great storm and in 1835 the garden in its present form came into being.