124 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
made the principal street sixty feet wide, with a cross 
street forty feet in width. “The space or lot for each 
house and garden I made three acres in size: for my 
own dwelling, however, six acres.” 
Thomas Budd’s description of the land from six 
miles above New Castle to the falls of the Delaware, 
written in 1685, says, “The land is in vines, some good 
and some bad, but the greatest part will bear good 
corn. . . . Garden Fruits groweth well, as Cab¬ 
bage, Coleworts, Colliflowers . . . Potatoes, Cur¬ 
rants, Gooseberries, Roses, Carnations, Tulips, Garden- 
Herbs, Flowers, Seeds, Fruits, &c for such as grow in 
England will certainly grow here . . . Orchards 
of Apples, Pears, Quinces, Peaches, Aprecocks, Plums, 
Cherries, and other sorts of the fruits of England may 
be soon raised to good advantage, the Trees growing 
faster than in England, whereof great quantities of 
Sider may be made . . . There are some vine¬ 
yards already planted in Pennsylvania and more in¬ 
tended to be planted by some French Protestants and 
others that are gone to settle there . . . Several 
other commodities may be raised here, as Rice which 
is known to have been sown for a tryal and it grew very 
well and yielded good increase. Also Annis seed I 
have been informed . . . Liquorish would doubt¬ 
less grow very well.” 
An account of Salam, in Pennsylvania, in 1698 tells 
