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[[underlined]]CONNECTICUT[[/underlined]]

^[[*]] Connecticut has fewer old gardens remaining than any Colonial state; whether gardens were really uncommon or whether time's changes have erased them and their record the fact remains. 

[[underlined]]Thaddeus Burr Garden, Fairfield, Conn[[/underlined]].

In Fairfield, Connecticut, the Thaddeus Burr garden is associated with many occurrences of Revolutionary times. It was here that John Hancock was married to Dorothy Quincy; the house which was burnt by the British forces was rebuilt almost immediately and stands today surrounded with lawns and fine old trees.

[[underlined]]29[[/underlined]]. The garden's main path as it approaches the house, planted with flowers suited to its history, is shown in the first view.

[[underlined]]30[[/underlined]]. The path from the house terrace with one of the beautiful elms in the foreground and the fine old hedge in the distance. These pictures record the garden as they were in the time of the late Mrs. De Ver Warner, who cared greatly for the history of the old garden.

[[underlined]]Captain Daniel Green Garden[[/underlined]], [[underlined]]New Haven, Conn.[[/underlined]]

In New Haven, probably about 1815, Captain Daniel Green, who had made a comfortable fortune as owner of the clipper ship, Neptune, had a plan made for his garden and the plan dated 1815, ^[[which]] is still in existence.

[[underlined]]31[[/underlined]]. The house in which the captain lived was built before the Revolution and the picture which we have shows that it had been architecturally changed in detail, though the main buildings are as they were.