Colonial Garden-making n 
homely seeds and plants for the gardens of the 
colonists carried back rare American seeds and plants 
for English physic gardens. 
In Pennsylvania, from the first years of the set- 
tlement, William Penn encouraged his Quaker 
followers to plant English flowers and fruit in 
abundance, and to try the fruits of the new world. 
Father Pastorius, in his Germantown settlement, 
assigned to each family a garden-plot of three acres, 
as befitted a man who left behind him at his death 
a manuscript poem of many thousand words on the 
pleasures of gardening, the description of flowers, 
and keeping of bees. George Fox, the founder of 
the Friends, or Quakers, died in 1690. He had 
travelled in the colonies ; and in his will he left 
sixteen acres of land to the Quaker meeting in 
the city of Philadelphia. Of these sixteen acres, 
ten were for u a close to put Friends' horses in 
when they came afar to the Meeting, that they 
may not be Lost in the Woods," while the other 
six were for a site for a meeting-house and school- 
house, and “ for a Playground for the Children 
of the town to Play on, and for a Garden to plant 
with Physical Plants, for Lads and Lasses to know 
Simples, and to learn to make Oils and Oint- 
ments." Few as are these words, they convey a 
positive picture of Fox’s intent, and a pleasing 
picture it is. He had seen what interest had been 
awakened and what instruction conveyed through 
the “ Physick-Garden " at Chelsea, England ; and 
he promised to himself similar interest and informa- 
tion from the study of plants and flowers by the 
