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first seeing them, that such use of them by him might 

 have been expected. 



In the ninth month he writes, "P. Ford has sent 

 James Reed more trees, seeds and sciences" (doubtless 

 this means "scions"), "which James my gardener here 

 brought." Then further, "In what you build . . . 

 let all be uniform and not a scu from the house. Get 

 and plant as much quick as you can about fields and 

 lay them out large, at least 12 acres in each." Still 

 detained in England in 1686 he writes: "I should be 

 glad to see a draft of Pennsbury which an artist would 

 quickly make, with the landscape of the house, out- 

 houses, their proportions and distance from each other. 

 Tell me how the peach and apple orchards bear." 



According to a description of comparatively recent 

 times the mansion — sometimes called the palace — 

 stood about seventy yards from the river, along which 

 the manor lay. It was of brick, sixty feet long and 

 forty deep, with a garden sloping away in front of 

 it. The offices were arranged alongside on the front 

 line of it, "all uniform and not a scu from the house," 

 with a "lane" forty feet wide separating them from 

 the house. This space which the writer took to be 

 a lane was of course the courtyard mentioned repeat- 

 edly by Penn, which had been sowed by himself with 

 the "hay dust" from Long Island. It was intended 

 to be kept close cut, in spite of there being no lawn- 



