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• Seat
  paved walk up the middle.” Blandulus [pseud.], November 1794, describing Pleasant Hill, seat of Joseph Barrell, Charlestown, MA (quoted in Hammond 1982: 95)
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• Prospect
  of Thomas Hancock on Beacon Hill, Boston, MA (quoted in Hedrick 1988: 49) “My Gardens all Lye on the South Side of a hill, with the most Beautifull Assent
  57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
• Summerhouse
  the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House (view text). Both Pleasant Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Charles Willson Peale's Belfield had summerhouses
  54 KB (7,141 words) - 13:18, April 12, 2021
• Walk
  “The hill is generally too steep for direct ascent, but we make level walks successively along it’s side, which in it’s upper part encircle the hill & intersect
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• View/Vista
  which you see the Top of a Red roof on the left over the hill. formerly a road went over this hill at the dotted lines.” [Fig. 9] Gerry, Elbridge, Jr., July
  80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Avenue
  James Smillie, “Bay-Grove Hill,” in Nehemiah Cleaveland, Green-Wood Illustrated (1847), opp. 26. James Smillie, “Lawn-Girt Hill,” in Nehemiah Cleaveland
  89 KB (11,855 words) - 18:59, August 10, 2021
• Pond
  aquatic plants.” [Fig. 6] Bentley, William, June 12, 1791, describing Pleasant Hill, seat of Joseph Barrell, Charlestown, MA (1962: 1:264) “Was politely
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• Kitchen garden
  shelter, or that of a hill on the south-west and north-west points. The garden is best situated at a moderate elevation; the summit of a hill, or the bottom of
  61 KB (8,699 words) - 13:31, April 12, 2021
• Grove
  statuary found in the midst of the grove at Pleasant Hill, Joseph Barrell’s estate in Charlestown, Massachusetts; Margaret Bayard Smith (1809) recorded that
  80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
• Border
  flowers” [Fig. 3]. The 1832 plans for Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, likewise included ten-foot borders filled with shrubs, perennials, and
  49 KB (6,996 words) - 20:56, March 29, 2021
• Statue
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, they were placed on top of monuments or memorials [see Fig. 14]. At the Elias Hasket Derby House in Salem, Massachusetts, the extant
  60 KB (7,896 words) - 19:37, August 12, 2021
• Square
  appointed for feasting.” Bentley, William, June 12, 1791, describing Pleasant Hill, seat of Joseph Barrell, Charlestown, MA (1962: 1:264) “[June] 12. Was
  67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
• Plantation
  describing Pleasant Hill (also known as Cobble Hill), seat of Joseph Barrell, Charlestown, MA (1821: 1:489) “MONDAY, October, 14th, we visited Cobble Hill; the
  67 KB (9,385 words) - 19:03, February 3, 2021
• Meadow
  America, 1757. Samuel Hill, “View of the Seat of the Hon. Moses Gill Esq. at Princeton, in the County of Worcester, Massats,” in Massachusetts Magazine 4, no
  31 KB (4,224 words) - 18:49, August 12, 2021
• Canal
  that depicted in a sketch of the seat of Edmund Quincy [See Fig. 8] in Massachusetts. Within the garden, canals could be straight, an idea promoted by treatise
  32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
• Plot/Plat
  they call Macocks.” Smith, John, 1629, describing the Charles River in Massachusetts (quoted in Miller and Johnson 1963: 2:399) “. . . in the maine you may
  54 KB (7,369 words) - 13:09, March 16, 2021
• Common
  October 25th 1848, 1849. Samuel Hill, “View/Vista of the Seat of his Excellency John Hancock, Esqr, Boston,” Massachusetts Magazine 1, no. 7 (July 1789):
  39 KB (5,484 words) - 17:07, April 7, 2021
• Public garden/Public ground
  cultivated in older private gardens. The 18th-century country seat Lemon Hill in Philadelphia [Fig. 10], for example, was turned into a commercial public
  42 KB (5,954 words) - 14:27, March 10, 2021
• Fence
  [detail], Unknown maker, Massachusetts, United States, 1800-1850. Painting of a Landscape with a Stag Hunt, Unknown maker, Massachusetts, United States, 1800-1850
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• Terrace/Slope
  it being very disagreeable in a Garden to be constantly going Up-hill, or Down-hill, without finding scarce any Resting-Place. “WHAT we call the Level
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