. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. theforests are cleared off as they ought to be. The clearing isnot made by the destructive burning of the trees, wherebythe fertile soil is converted into ashes and carried away bythe winds. Some sticks or stumps may be thus burned so asto put them almost entirely out of the way. As labor is veryhigh, so sometimes only the bushes and undergrowths areremoved; but the large trees are still left standing, butaround these a score is cut, and they then dry up within thefirst year, and thus some fall down; so one may see fields filledwith dry trees, and a heavy cr
. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. theforests are cleared off as they ought to be. The clearing isnot made by the destructive burning of the trees, wherebythe fertile soil is converted into ashes and carried away bythe winds. Some sticks or stumps may be thus burned so asto put them almost entirely out of the way. As labor is veryhigh, so sometimes only the bushes and undergrowths areremoved; but the large trees are still left standing, butaround these a score is cut, and they then dry up within thefirst year, and thus some fall down; so one may see fields filledwith dry trees, and a heavy crop of grain growing underthem. Progress, if it sometimes appeared slow, was steady, andwe find that upon the Great-Road, and opposite to whatis now Armat Street, was started by Christian Lehman, oneof the earliest nurseries in the colonies,—and without questionthe first in Germantown for the commerical growing of plants. The necessity for this was apparent, for Judge WilliamAllen, who lived at his country place named Mount Airy,. William Allen 3i and situated upon the pike opposite Livezeys Lane, nowAllens Lane, November 26, 1753, wrote D. Barclay & Son,his London agents, for one parcel of best early readings,20 oz. of early Battersea Cabbage, one oz. of the Russia,and one ounce of every sort of cabbage that is esteemed tobe very good, and one oz. of each of the Savoy kind. Also2 ounces of colly-flower for, as he continued, I live in thecountry in the summer season, and a good part of my amuse-ment is a kitchen garden. Pray be so kind as to send me theseeds. December 4, 1762, Judge Allen shipped to WilliamHopkins of St. Pauls Church Yard, London, a box contain-ing 104 sorts of the seeds of forest trees, and shrubs, etc.,of this country for my Lord Gage,—thus showing hisknowledge, his interest, and a pressing local need. As indicated by Townsend Ward, the following appear-ed in the Pennsylvania Chronicle of April 12, 1768 : To besold, a choice parcel of well grown English wa
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