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Garden history sketches reveal America's early landscapes
The article traces American garden beginnings from Plymouth plots and Bartram’s Philadelphia botanic garden to Virginia and South Carolina estates like Middleton Place and Shirley. It highlights Dutch and Quaker influences, famed box hedges, and enduring legacies such as Monticello and Montpelier, with notes on famed gardens and their caretakers across states.
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John Winthror
Boston
Plymouth
Plymouth Town
Old England
New England
New Colony
Old Country
William Penn
Germantown
Father Pastorius
George Fox
Philadelphia
Americn
John Bartram
New World
Province of
Pennsylvania
Grumblethrop
Charles Wester
Friends
New York
Schuyan Garden
New Albany
N. Y
South Africa
van Cortlandt Manor
Craters
Hudson, N. Y
Pierre van Cortlandt
Prince Nurseries
America
Carolina
Prince House
Washington
Prince
Flushing
Prince Homestead
United States
Lebanon
Bartram
Ashley River
Ashley
Middleton Place
Sherman
Middleton
Henry Middleton
England
Frances Duncan
Century Magazine
Middleton Place Garden
Andre Michaux
Middleton Garden
Middleton Mansion
Magnolia Garden
Drayton
Charleston
Pringle House
Ashley Hall
Smith Garden
South Battery
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Virginia
South
Old Dominion
James River
Virginia Gardens
Aldie
James
Westover
Evelyn Byrd
Byrd
Perhgyos
Brandon
Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Shirley
Tuckahoe
Richmond
Thomas Jefferson
Randolph
Albemarle County
University of Virginia
Jefferson
Monticello
Montpelier
James Madison
Sherwood Forest
Kenmore
Berkeley
Stratford
Wythe House