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Learn about 18th century gardening practices with your favorite horticulturist, Dean Norton.
Cisterns, seen here in the Lower Garden, were essential to plant growth in George Washington’s time.
They served two primary functions:
(1) Making water easily accessible to the gardeners
(2) Warming up the water so that the plants would be more receptive to it.
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