[Illustration: PLATE 78 "Blairsden," Peapack, N. J. C. Ledyard Blair, Esq. _Reproduced by courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co._] [Illustration: PLATE 79 "Blairsden," Peapack, N. J. C. Ledyard Blair, Esq. _Reproduced by courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co._] [Illustration: PLATE 80 "Blairsden," Peapack, N. J. C. Ledyard Blair, Esq. _Reproduced by courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Co._] [Illustration: PLATE 81 "Brooklawn," Short Hills, N. J. Mrs. Edward B. Renwick _From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] [Illustration: PLATE 82 "Drumthwacket," Princeton, N. J. Mrs. Moses Taylor Pyne _From a photograph, copyright, by Miss Johnston--Mrs. Hewitt_] [Illustration: PLATE 83 "Drumthwacket," Princeton, N. J. Mrs. Moses Taylor Pyne _From a photograph, copyright, by Miss Johnston--Mrs. Hewitt_] [Illustration: PLATE 84 "Drumthwacket," Princeton, N. J. Mrs. Moses Taylor Pyne _From a photograph, copyright, by Miss Johnston--Mrs. Hewitt_] [Illustration: PLATE 85 "Onunda," Madison, N. J. Mrs. D. Willis James _From a photograph by Parker Brothers_] [Illustration: PLATE 86 "Glen Alpine," Morristown, N. J. Mrs. Charles W. McAlpin _From a photograph by Parker Brothers_] [Illustration: PLATE 87 "Thornton," Rumson, N. J. Mrs. J. Horace Harding _From a photograph by Alman & Co._] [Illustration: PLATE 88 Highland, N. J. Mrs. H. H. Seabrook _From a photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals_] VI PENNSYLVANIA The most zealous advocate of gardening in the early days was William Penn, the original proprietor of the State, who persistently urged his Quaker followers to plant gardens around the homesteads. With numerous old ones and an ever-increasing number of new gardens the State stands among the foremost as a garden centre. In olden times the Quaker ideas against extravagant appearances resulted in the making of simpler places than those built by the people who settled in the Southern States; but these modest Pennsylvania gardens did not suffer the ravages of war, and many of them have lived serenely through the years. Andalusia came into the possession of the family of its present owners in 1795, and a village has gradually grown around the place. The garden is about one hundred years in age, and has been long noted for its trees and hedges, its fruits and old-fashioned flowers. The simplicity of its plan, so characteristic of the early gardens, detracts nothing from its charm, but rather is it filled with picturesque features that are truly American.