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Title: Germantown Gardens and Gardeners
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Jellett, Edwin C. (Edwin Costley), 1860-1929.
Subjects: Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Germantown (Philadelphia). Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Biography.
Publisher: Philadelphia: Horace F. McCann
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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liam M. Bayard,a flower-loving enthusiast, to whom Peter McGowan formany years was gardener. Phil-Ellena we have referred to. George W. Carpen-ter, its builder, was a chemist, who rapidly amassed a for-tune and improved his property. Its last gardener wasDavid Joyce, who after the surrender of Phil-Ellena toPelham, laid out and had charge of Willow Grove Park,while his brother established himself commercially uponWashington Lane, east of Chew Street. David Joyce was anable gardener, as was also his brother William, who was gar-dener to Matthias W. Baldwin. Carpenter Mansion and itsadornments lost their identity in the year 1893, and the spa-cious grounds once surrounding are now almost completelybuilt upon. What remains of its once varied collections maynow be seen at the Academy of the Natural Sciences of Phila-delphia, in Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park, or may occa-sionally be stumbled upon in unexpected places elsewhere.Ellen Olney Kirk, a well-known home writer, in her popular
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H 87 novels frequently has honored Germantown. She dedicateda book to J. R. H., and pleasantly described the gardensof Wyck,—and also the gardens and Clock-Tower ofPhil-Ellena. Proceeding northward upon Wissahickon Avenue, fromMerricks Place, are several fine gardens, which we mayonly refer to. These are the gardens of George C. Thomas,to whom Conrad Sible was gardener, whose garden, with itschoice collections, have become a part of Fairmount Park,—the old-fashioned attractive garden of Samuel Welsh, Jr.,cared for by John Sible, the rose and hardy perennial gardenof N. DuBois Miller, Esq., nearby; Spring Bank, the homeof Hon. John Welsh, whose noble trees, velvety meadowslopes, and richly stored garden were cultivated by HarmanKrugar, whose son, born upon the place, is now President ofthe Philadelphia Traction Company,—and after by MartinL. Constable, who now lives upon the Thomas estate, andhas charge of the shrubbery upon Lincoln Drive,—therose-growing plant of John Welsh Yo

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