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of the many “Fair and Great Brick Houses on the out¬ 
side of the Town which the Gentry have built there for 
their Countrey Houses, besides the Great and Stately 
Palace of John Tateham, Esq.: which is pleasantly 
situated on the north side of the Town, having a very 
fine and delightful Garden and Orchard adjoyning to 
it, wherein is variety of Fruits, Herbs and Flowers; as 
Roses, Tulips, July-flowers (gilliflowers), Sun- 
Flowers, (that open and shut as the Sun Rises and 
Sets, thence taking their Name) Carnations and many 
more; besides abundance of medicinal Roots, Herbs, 
Plants and Flowers, found wild in the Fields.” The 
same writer mentions further on “Glocester-Town 
which is a very Fine and pleasant Place, being well 
stored with Summer Fruits, as Cherries, Mulberries, 
and Strawberries.” 
A famous place of the next generation, on the road 
from Philadelphia to Darby, was “Woodlands,” begun 
m !734 ^ Andrew Hamilton, a celebrated Maryland 
planter. The place contained about six hundred 
acres, and was most imposing, judging from the loose 
descriptions of it that are preserved. Its entrance 
gateway was flanked by two splendid lodges; the 
grounds about the mansion were large, and the gardens 
abounded “in rare and foreign trees and luscious fruits 
and exquisite flowers.” Its fame spread so that all 
visitors of cultivation and taste who came to Phila- 
