. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. closely fenced in. The gate was at the easterly end, the apexof the triangle. Trees and shrubs were in profusion, and onboth sides of the long walk to the house were all manner ofold-fashioned flowers dear to our grandmothers. We confessto our own secret liking for them. Marigolds and bachelors-buttons are a joy to us still. It is to this or a similar old-time garden that an accomplished daughter of Kinderhook,Miss Alice M. Rathbone, alludes in her book—How to Makea Flower Garden (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903). Writingchar
. A history of old Kinderhook from aboriginal days to the present time;. closely fenced in. The gate was at the easterly end, the apexof the triangle. Trees and shrubs were in profusion, and onboth sides of the long walk to the house were all manner ofold-fashioned flowers dear to our grandmothers. We confessto our own secret liking for them. Marigolds and bachelors-buttons are a joy to us still. It is to this or a similar old-time garden that an accomplished daughter of Kinderhook,Miss Alice M. Rathbone, alludes in her book—How to Makea Flower Garden (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903). Writingcharmingly of chrysanthemums she says: There is one seemingly more precious, perhaps because elu-sive, that used to grow along a fence on an old village street, andwas the object of a yearly autumn drive. The lovely flower wasa loose white ball just tinged with purplish pink. It vanishedseveral years ago from that Kinderhook garden. Doubtlessit flourished elsewhere. May its shadow never grow less until itreveals itself again to us in its beautiful old-time Old Fort, Chatham Center From a photograph
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