ii4 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
the great estates and gardens of Lord Baltimore’s 
patent, for this would be superfluous. Dating from 
practically the same time, made by the same kind of 
people and under similar conditions, the gardens of 
Maryland naturally partake of much the same char¬ 
acteristics which distinguish the gardens of Virginia. 
They were liberally conceived, and liberally executed; 
the domestic arrangements were practically identical, 
hence there was the same general scheme of building— 
although Maryland houses do not show the altogether 
detached offices and “quarters” as often as they are 
seen in the Virginia planter’s home—and the same 
plants grew in both. There seems to have been a less 
free touch in Maryland sometimes, and this leads to 
a more conventional, chilly stiffness and an impression 
of loneliness, such as is seen also in the houses; but, 
taken all in all, the subtle differences are too elusive 
to be enmeshed in words. 
The province founded by the Lords Baltimore, with 
its great and beautiful shore line, was almost forty 
years old when his Quaker sympathies drove William 
Penn to seek a grant of land in America in payment of 
the Crown’s indebtedness to his father, Admiral Sir 
William Penn, of something like £ 16,000. Strong 
influence was brought to bear upon the privy council 
against the grant being made, but Penn, well bom, 
charming, polished and eminently likable, was popular 
