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Michigan Ancient Garden Beds
In the St. Joseph valley I learned of numerous places, widely apart where the labor and skill of our ancient horticulturists were apparent in small gardens, laid out in different styles, and with an eye to the picturesque ; as if each family had not only its separate garden patch, but had used it for the display of its own peculiar taste.
Historians tell us of the Aztecs, that they had gardens, in which were cultivated various plants, for medicinal uses, as well as for ornament Was there something analogous to this in the Michigan Nation ? Did the latter also have botanical gardens ? May we accord to this unknown people a considerable advance in science, in addition to a cultivated taste, and an eye for symmetry and beauty, which is without precedent among the pre-historic people of this continent, north of Mexico ?
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