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first seeing them, that such use of them by him might 
have been expected. 
In the ninth month he writes, “P. Ford has sent 
James Reed more trees, seeds and sciences” (doubtless 
this means “scions”), “which James my gardener here 
brought.” Then further, “In what you build . . . 
let all be uniform and not a scu from the house. Get 
and plant as much quick as you can about fields and 
lay them out large, at least 12 acres in each.” Still 
detained in England in 1686 he writes: “I should be 
glad to see a draft of Pennsbury which an artist would 
quickly make, with the landscape of the house, out¬ 
houses, their proportions and distance from each other. 
Tell me how the peach and apple orchards bear.” 
According to a description of comparatively recent 
times the mansion—sometimes called the palace— 
stood about seventy yards from the river, along which 
the manor lay. It was of brick, sixty feet long and 
forty deep, with a garden sloping away in front of 
it. The offices were arranged alongside on the front 
line of it, “all uniform and not a scu from the house,” 
with a “lane” forty feet wide separating them from 
the house. This space which the writer took to be 
a lane was of course the courtyard mentioned repeat¬ 
edly by Penn, which had been sowed by himself with 
the “hay dust” from Long Island. It was intended 
to be kept close cut, in spite of there being no lawn- 
