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[[underlined]]27[[/underlined]]. The plan of the old garden shows the long narrow oblong beds, bordered with box, the well co-ordinated units, fitting the lay of the land as do most of the gardens of this period. Most of the original flowers have died out and the box is that of 1835. The design is very simple and illustrates again the use of rectangular spacing in many old New England gardens. 

[[underlined]]The Swan Fountain, estate of Arthur B. Lisle, East Greenwich, R.I.[[/underlined]](1835)

In the heart of the garden of Arthur B. Lisle of East Greenwich one finds the ruins of the old Spencer garden, for the Spencers, as well as the Greenes, made gardens on the land west of Narragansett Bay. The Spencers owned this property for many years, but in 1839 the property was sold to John H. Clarke, United States Senator from Rhode Island. Mr. Clarke enlarged the house and gardens, as did Mr. Arthur Lisle, the present owner of the estate.

[[underlined]]28[[/underlined]]. The white swan fountain dates from the 1839 period and is a typical Andrew Jackson Downing garden ornament. It stands on the lawn distinctly outlined against the sombre foliage of an old Norway spruce, also a typical tree of the forties. There is in the garden much fine old box dating from this period.