. The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . The Old Cabot Garden where Tulips reigned Supreme Salems Old-fashioned Flower Gardens By Mary H. Northend ^MONG Salems chief attractions/ % are her old-fashioned gardens/ j^ founded by the merchant princesof the town more than one hundredyears ago. The earliest among thesewere laid out by a professional horti-culturist, one George Henssler, a nativeof Landau in Germany, who had servedan apprenticeship in the gardens of thePrince of Orange at the Hague. Otherscontinued his work under the auspicesof Salems wealthy
. The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics . The Old Cabot Garden where Tulips reigned Supreme Salems Old-fashioned Flower Gardens By Mary H. Northend ^MONG Salems chief attractions/ % are her old-fashioned gardens/ j^ founded by the merchant princesof the town more than one hundredyears ago. The earliest among thesewere laid out by a professional horti-culturist, one George Henssler, a nativeof Landau in Germany, who had servedan apprenticeship in the gardens of thePrince of Orange at the Hague. Otherscontinued his work under the auspicesof Salems wealthy merchants. As a rule, the gardens of the WitchCity cannot be seen by the passingtourist, for they are carefully hiddenfrom view behind massive brick here and there can a glimpse becaught of their exquisite colors. Some of these gardens have disap-peared. But others have been recon-structed on the primitive plans, andevery summer artists come from dif-ferent parts of the country to painttheir beauties. 36° The Boston Cooking-School Magazine. Mr. Daniel Lows Garden The general scheme of these gardensis the same. There is the long, shadedcentral walk, bordered with box, lead-ing to the arbor covered with grape-vines, white clematis, or Dutchmans-pipe. In this summer-house, asour ancestors quaintly termed it,Salems grandmothers used to sit withneedle and thread, knitting, or evenwith book in hand, through the long,quiet hours of still summer either side of the central walk arebox-bordered beds filled with the many-colored flowers of each season,—tulipsof every brilliant hue, single and doublepeonies, phlox, nasturtiums, the thickbushes of the fragrant syringa, tallhollyhocks swaying in the breeze,spotted tiger lilies, heliotrope, mignon-ette, and the quaint pink and whiteflower of the dielytra, from which Salemyoungsters have made for generationsrabbits, boats, and other fantasticfigures. In old Salem gardens the small,thorny, white Scotch rose can stil
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