The work done by Carmen Weber on Maryland gardens has also been especially helpful, as have conversations with Mrs. Wright and Ms. Weber on the topic of 18th-century gardening. The first phase of archaeology at Moroen was designed to test the potential for further study of the ear(v garden landscape at a ca. 1758 house in Princeton, New jersey. The research included intensive botanical analysis using a · varieO' of archaeobotanical techniques integrated within a broader ethnobotanical

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... A study was also made of the garden's topography using map analysis combined with subsurface testing Information on garden features related to the design of earlier garden surfaces suggests the ways in which the Stockton family manipulated their estate to convey a social image of the family to the local Princeton community. This, in tum, provides information that, when combined with collateral ethnographic information obtained from documents, suggests the symbolic content of the garden. Le premier phase d'arcbeologie a Moroen ete proJete examine le potential pour autre etudes du ancien Jardin-paysage a · une maison du 1758 a Princeton, New jersey. La recherche a compris !'analyse ethnobotanique intensif qui a utilisee urie variete des techniques archeobotaniques lesquels sont integrfis a une strategie eth' nobotanique plus grande. Une etude de la topof::,Iraphie du Jardin ere fait aussi. Jl a utilise !'analyse des cartes et les sondages souterrain. Des renseignements des traites du Jardin relatif au dessein des anciens surfaces dit Jardin illustre _la far;on dont la famille Stockton a manipulee leur domain afin de communiquer une image social de la famille a la societe tout pres de Princeton. Cela, foumie des renseignements qui, combinee avec les renseignements ethnographiques collateral foumie par la recherche documentaire, laissent supposer le contenu symbolique du Jardin.