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the great estates and gardens of Lord Baltimore's 

 patent, for this would be superfluous. Dating from 

 practically the same time, made by the same kind of 

 people and under similar conditions, the gardens of 

 Maryland naturally partake of much the same char- 

 acteristics which distinguish the gardens of Virginia. 

 They were liberally conceived, and liberally executed; 

 the domestic arrangements were practically identical, 

 hence there was the same general scheme of building — 

 although Maryland houses do not show the altogether 

 detached offices and "quarters" as often as they are 

 seen in the Virginia planter's home — and the same 

 plants grew in both. There seems to have been a less 

 free touch in Maryland sometimes, and this leads to 

 a more conventional, chilly stiifness and an impression 

 of loneliness, such as is seen also in the houses; but, 

 taken all in all, the subtle differences are too elusive 

 to be enmeshed in words. 



The province founded by the Lords Baltimore, with 

 its great and beautiful shore line, was almost forty 

 years old when his Quaker sympathies drove William 

 Penn to seek a grant of land in America in payment of 

 the Crown's indebtedness to his father. Admiral Sir 

 William Penn, of something like £16,000. Strong 

 influence was brought to bear upon the privy council 

 against the grant being made, but Penn, well bom, 

 charming, polished and eminently likable, was popular 



