A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania the Ninth
A Discourse Delivered Before the Historical Society of Pennsylvania the Ninth
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" But he does not seem to have had much of the knowledge of a farmer, and his chief care and solicitude are about his gardens. He sent out several gardeners, one of them a Scotchman, re- commended as " a rare artist. " He directs, that he shall have three men under him, and, if he cannot agree with the OF WILLIAM PEN ff. 31 old gardener Ralph, is to leave to his charge, the upper gar^ dens, and court yards, and to take as his own province the lower grounds, The Proprietor sent out from England,... wal- nuts, hawthorns, hazels, fruit trees, and a great variety of the rarest seeds, and roots ; while in this country, (as we learn from the cash book, ) he procured from Maryland, se- veral panniers of the trees, and shrubs, indigenous in that province, and he directed, by his letters, that the most beau- tiful wild flowers of the woods should be transplanted into his grounds. On the whole, his directions indicate a love of nature, and elegance of taste, which are very remarkable. While we peruse the letters of William Penn, we may be- lieve that Pennsbury was truly a delightful seat ; but of its charms not one trace remains ; its woods are destroyed, its lawns are corn fields, not one shrub, not one " garden flower grown wild" survives: a few English cherries, and some stumps of ornamental trees, were all that Mr.
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" But he does not seem to have had much of the knowledge of a farmer, and his chief care and solicitude are about his gardens. He sent out several gardeners, one of them a Scotchman, re- commended as " a rare artist. " He directs, that he shall have three men under him, and, if he cannot agree with the OF WILLIAM PEN ff. 31 old gardener Ralph, is to leave to his charge, the upper gar^ dens, and court yards, and to take as his own province the lower grounds, The Proprietor sent out from England,... wal- nuts, hawthorns, hazels, fruit trees, and a great variety of the rarest seeds, and roots ; while in this country, (as we learn from the cash book, ) he procured from Maryland, se- veral panniers of the trees, and shrubs, indigenous in that province, and he directed, by his letters, that the most beau- tiful wild flowers of the woods should be transplanted into his grounds. On the whole, his directions indicate a love of nature, and elegance of taste, which are very remarkable. While we peruse the letters of William Penn, we may be- lieve that Pennsbury was truly a delightful seat ; but of its charms not one trace remains ; its woods are destroyed, its lawns are corn fields, not one shrub, not one " garden flower grown wild" survives: a few English cherries, and some stumps of ornamental trees, were all that Mr.
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