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OverviewWith hearts revived in conceit new Lands and Trees they spy, Scenting the Caesars and Sweet Fern from heat's reflection dry, wrote one colonist of that arrival, in his Good Newes from New England. I like to think that Sweet Fern, the characteristic wild perfume of New England, was wafted out to greet them. And then all went on shore in the sunshine of that ineffable time and season, --a New England day in June, --and they gathered store of fine strawberries, just as their Salem friends had on a June day on the preceding year gathered strawberries and sweet Single Roses so resembling the English Eglantine that the hearts of the women must have ached within them with fresh homesickness. And ere long all had dwelling-places, were they but humble log cabins; and pasture lands and commons were portioned out; and in a short time all had garden-plots, and thus, with sheltering roof-trees, and warm firesides, and with gardens, even in this lonely new world, they had homes. The first entry in the Plymouth Records is a significant one; it is the assignment of Meresteads and Garden-Plotes, not meresteads alone, which were farm lands, but home gardens: the outlines of these can still be seen in Plymouth town. And soon all sojourners who bore news back to England of the New-Englishmen and New-Englishwomen, told of ample store of gardens. Ere a year had passed hopeful John Winthrop wrote, My Deare Wife, wee are here in a Paradise. In four years the chronicler Wood said in his New England's Prospect, There is growing here all manner of herbs for meat and medicine, and that not only in planted gardens, but in the woods, without the act and help of man. Governor Endicott had by that time a very creditable garden. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alice Morse EarlePublisher: Blurb Imprint: Blurb Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.417kg ISBN: 9780368633669ISBN 10: 0368633667 Pages: 310 Publication Date: 18 April 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |