PLATE 102
"Ingleside," Catonsville, Md. Mrs. A. C. Ritchie
PLATE 103
"The Blind," Havre de Grace, Md. James Lawrence Breese, Esq.
VIII
VIRGINIA
Virginia was the first of the States to adopt a luxurious mode of living. Its early men and women, so recently English, were not many of them of the strictly Puritan type, but rather the ease and pleasure loving class, and shortly their fertile plantations, developed by countless slaves, yielded rich results, and Virginia, followed soon by the neighboring States, became famous for homes and gardens on an extensive scale.