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greenhouse is 45 feet long, the framing ample for early 
vegetables and flowers. 
"Nothing in these grounds pleased us more than the 
perfect order of the kitchen garden. It contains about two 
acres, and is indeed a picture of culinary horticulture. There 
are 4 walks in the length and 9 in the breadth; all interesting 
at right angles, and making 24 divisions, besides borders; 
and these divisions are cropt with vegetables in the finest 
order; each division having its own crop (not intermixed as 
we see in most gardens) which is through every stage attend- 
ed with the utmost regularity. The walks gravelled and 
edges with box-wood neatly clipped; and all exhibiting a 
lovely specimen of art. A half acre of other ground is 
devoted to flowers and decorative shrubs. On the whole we 
can safely assert that there is not a finer kept or better 
regulated kitchen garden on this continent. Indeed it will 
bear comparison with European gardens of the highest 
cultivation, according to its size; and what is exceedingly 
gratifying, is, that the gardener is a native American, and 
has superintended the place 14 years, which shows at once 
capacity and constancy. We are glad to see those born 
among us, begin to relish the minute and orderly labor of the 
garden and pleasure grounds. Here-to-fore the plough with 
them has been preferred to the spade, and emigrants alone 
have adopted amongst us the slow and patient toil of 
Horticulture." This was written while the place was 
occupied by Dr. James Mease, who had been Secretary of the 
important "Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agri- 
culture," and is so pleasing that we shall not quote from 
Fanny Kemble's "Records of Later-Life" wherein 5 years 
later, Butler Place is very differently described. The garden- 
er here to Pierce Butler was James Leddy. 
"Bonneval Cottage," the last place we may now stop 
at upon Old York Road, was built in the year 1745, and a 
few years later was occupied by Dr. George De Benneville, 
who having once served as Pharmacist to Christopher Sauer, 
after located at Oley, Pennsylvania, from which place in 
