. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. -wealth,—for the products of this house were distributedthroughout the entire German settlements of the valleys ofWissahickon, Stony, Skippack, Indian, Perkiomen, Swamp,Tulpehocken, Swatara, Cocalico and Conestoga creeks,—throughout the country from Lehigh River to SusquehannaRiver, from Snow Hill, Maryland, to the mountains ofcentral New York, a positive, powerful, influence for theelevation of its patrons, and if we believe disinterestedobservers as believe we must, Germantown from the first wasan important, busy, developing, intelligent community. As indi
. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. -wealth,—for the products of this house were distributedthroughout the entire German settlements of the valleys ofWissahickon, Stony, Skippack, Indian, Perkiomen, Swamp,Tulpehocken, Swatara, Cocalico and Conestoga creeks,—throughout the country from Lehigh River to SusquehannaRiver, from Snow Hill, Maryland, to the mountains ofcentral New York, a positive, powerful, influence for theelevation of its patrons, and if we believe disinterestedobservers as believe we must, Germantown from the first wasan important, busy, developing, intelligent community. As indicative of its thought, in it November 17, 1741,upon the main road near present Manheim Street, was bornAdam Kuhn, who in the year 1761 was sent to Sweden,where he was trained under the celebrated Linnaeus, who tohis pupil dedicated the genus Kuhnia. Upon Kuhns returnto America he practiced medicine, and in the PhiladelphiaCollege, became the first professor of botany in America. Among important visitors to Germantown during the. Adam Kuhx, l9 middle period were Rev. Andrew Burnaby, Major RobertRogers, Duke de la Rochefoucauld, and others, whorecorded impressions which cover a period extending from1760 to 1800, and after, there are valuable records of resi-dents, and of late visitors, but these like those of SamuelCarpenter, Richard Frame, and Robert Turner of the firstperiod, we shall pass, to present with sufficient detail thereports of a few whose contributions are of more value. After William Penn, the most important visitor toearly Germantown was Prof. Peter Kalm, of Aobo, Sweden,a naturalist, who with his servant, Lars Youngstroem, askilled gardener, came to America to study its naturalresources, and who is remembered in Kalmia Latifolia, thelaurel common to our woods. In America, Peter Kalm spentthree and a half years, much of this time being passed ineastern Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, and atRaccoon, now Swedesboro, in western New Jersey, he l
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