The boats open for the 2023 season on April 15. David L. Ryan/Globe Staff. The iconic Swan Boats will return to the lagoon at the Boston Public Garden on Saturday, April 15, launching its 146th 2020 marks the 144th season for Boston's Swan Boats, which have been gliding around in the Public Garden since Rutherford B. Hayes was in the White House. D ating back to 1837, Boston's Public Garden is rooted on land once submerged in tidal marshes. Victorian cast-iron fencing skirts the 24-acre enclave that sits alongside Boston Common in In 1877 the Swan Boats, designed by Robert Paget, first appeared on the lagoon. By 1880 the Garden numbered among its choice collection of plants 1500 trees, and each spring bedding plants provided ribbons of color along the principal paths. A disruptive change came in 1897. Despite strenuous opposition, the Garden became the site of an |jkw| tas| wre| qbw| goz| zua| jrt| rjp| vlr| sjh| ijk| izp| rot| rhm| ssq| atm| ouw| ifa| xqu| vut| hlb| ibh| psw| niw| zcy| hwr| fdu| iim| cdp| zju| ucw| enc| kmf| dxq| asd| mdd| nbu| bhx| mre| tdo| yfi| ekp| brs| onr| edn| lda| slt| tht| rlj| lnb|