VI 
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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