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[[underlined]] NEW HAMPSHIRE [[/underlined]]

^[[*]] [[underlined]] Ladd House, Portsmouth, N. H. [[/underlined]] (1770-80)

[[underlined]] 45. [[/underlined]] The distinctive feature of the Ladd garden ^[[in Portsmouth N.H.]] is its varying levels and terraces. A brick path laid in herringbone form, leads to the garden plot and the wide grass steps leading to the upper level are somewhat unusual in the north as they are a difficult accomplishment when frost is so deep. 

^[[* No slide]] [[underlined]] 46. [[/underlined]] Nothing is known of the beginning of the garden ^[[except for possible dates of 1770-1780]] but it is excellently planned and laid out and the Ladd family has through years added constantly to its store of natural beauty. It is now in the care of the Colonial Dames of New Hampshire. 

[[underlined]] Jacob Wendell Garden, Portsmouth, N.H. [[/underlined]] (1820)

This tiny garden, ^[[planted in Portsmouth, N.H. by Jacob Wendell]] dating in the first quarter of the 19th century, scarcely thirty by fifty feet, lies at the rear of the house which has been owned by the Wendell family since 1815.

[[underlined]] 47. [[/underlined]] It is said that the garden was designed from the pieces of a Chinese puzzle, still in the house, brought from the Orient by one of the sea-going Wendells. The tiny beds fit into each other as skillfully as the bits of a puzzle and are as colorful as the squares of an old quilt. 

Professor Barrett Wendell, whose name was so long associated with Harvard, restored the garden to its old form and again the old time flowers bloom in the little beds which are dominated by a Chinese figure, of which the body is of living box and the head and hands of terra cotta.