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of the many "Fair and Great Brick Houses on the out- 

 side of the Town which the Gentry have built there for 

 their Countrey Houses, besides the Great and Stately 

 Palace of John Tateham, Esq.: which is pleasantly 

 situated on the north side of the Town, having a very 

 fine and delightful Garden and Orchard adjoyning to 

 it, wherein is variety of Fruits, Herbs and Flowers ; as 

 Roses, Tulips, July-flowers (gilliflowers), Sun- 

 Flowers, (that open and shut as the Sun Rises and 

 Sets, thence taking their Name) Carnations and many 

 more; besides abundance of medicinal Roots, Herbs, 

 Plants and Flowers, found wild in the Fields." The 

 same writer mentions further on "Glocester-Town 

 which is a very Fine and pleasant Place, being well 

 stored with Summer Fruits, as Cherries, Mulberries, 

 and Strawberries." 



A famous place of the next generation, on the road 

 from Philadelphia to Darby, was "Woodlands," begun 

 in 1734 by Andrew Hamilton, a celebrated Maryland 

 planter. The place contained about six hundred 

 acres, and was most imposing, judging from the loose 

 descriptions of it that are preserved. Its entrance 

 gateway was flanked by two splendid lodges; the 

 grounds about the mansion were large, and the gardens 

 abounded "in rare and foreign trees and luscious fruits 

 and exquisite flowers." Its fame spread so that all 

 visitors of cultivation and taste who came to Phila- 



