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[[underlined]] NEW JERSEY [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] The Garden at Morven, Princeton, N.J. [[/underlined]] (1720-40)

The house at Morven was built in 1701 but the first actual record of the garden is in a letter written by Richard Stockton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence to his wife, Anna Boudinot, in 1750. In it he tells how he planned to visit Alexander Pope's garden and have an exact plan made of it. 

[[underlined]] 48. [[/underlined]] When Mrs. Bayard Stockton wished to restore the old garden, which had lost its original form, she found through much research in the British Museum a carefully guarded plan of Pope's garden. This was copied and, much to her delight, it was possible to trace the old lines, absolutely proving that the first garden had been a copy of Pope's. The beds were then planted with flowers with a history: hollyhocks from Kew, sweet William from Abbotsford, flowers from France, from Holland and from many historic places in America. 

When Moven celebrated its two hundredth birthday, October, 1901, a sun dial was placed in the middle of the garden and on ^[[it]] [[strikethrough]] the gnomon [[/strikethrough]] was carved the following motto, written by Dr. Henry van Dyke: 

"Two hundred years of Morven I record,
Of Morven's house protected by the Lord,
And now I stand among old-fashioned flowers,
To make for Moven many sun-lit hours."

[[underlined]] 49. [[/underlined]] The ancient catalpa trees at Morven which were in blossom at the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and one of the