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PENNSYLVANIA 



The most zealous advocate of gardening in the early 

 days was William Penn, the original proprietor of the 

 State, who persistently urged his Quaker followers to 

 plant gardens around the homesteads. With numerous 

 old ones and an ever-increasing number of new gardens 

 the State stands among the foremost as a garden centre. 

 In olden times the Quaker ideas against extravagant ap- 

 pearances resulted in the making of simpler places than 

 those built by the people who settled in the Southern 

 States; but these modest Pennsylvania gardens did not 

 suffer the ravages of war, and many of them have lived 

 serenely through the years. 



Andalusia came into the possession of the family of its 

 present owners in 1795, and a village has gradually grown 

 around the place. The garden is about one hundred 

 years in age, and has been long noted for its trees and 

 hedges, its fruits and old-fashioned flowers. The simplic- 

 ity of its plan, so characteristic of the early gardens, de- 

 tracts nothing from its charm, but rather is it filled with 

 picturesque features that are truly American. 



At Fancy Field the formal garden is made somewhat 



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