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toms and fashions, their fertile soil and favorable 
climate, and their many slaves, all contributed to 
the successful making of elaborate gardens. Even 
as early as 1682. South Carolina gardens were de- 
clared to be tc adorned with such Flowers as to the 
Smell or Eye are pleasing or agreeable, as the Rose, 
Tulip, Lily, Carnation, &c.” William Byrd wrote 
of the terraced gardens of Virginia homes. Charles- 
ton dames vied with each other in the beauty of 
their gardens, and Mrs. Logan, when seventy years 
old, in 1779, wrote a treatise called The Gardener s 
Kalendar. Eliza Lucas Pinckney of Charleston 
was devoted to practical floriculture and horticulture. 
Her introduction of indigo raising into South Caro- 
lina revolutionized the trade products of the state 
and brought to it vast wealth. Like many other 
women and many men of wealth and culture at that 
time, she kept up a constant exchange of letters, 
seeds, plants, and bulbs with English people of like 
tastes. She received from them valuable English 
seeds and shrubs ; and in turn she sent to England 
what were so eagerly sought by English flower 
raisers, our native plants. The good will and na- 
tional pride of ship captains were enlisted ; even 
young trees of considerable size were set in hogs- 
heads, and transported, and cared for during the 
long voyage. 
The garden at Mount Vernon is probably the 
oldest in Virginia still in original shape. In Mary- 
land are several fine, formal gardens which do not 
date, however, to colonial days ; the beautiful one 
at Hampton, the home of the Ridgelys, in Balti- 
