. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. r-gin, upon West Chelten Avenue; of Lambert Lare andJames Armstrong, upon East Haines Street; of Dr. NaamanH. Keyser, upon High Street; of Dr. I. Pearson Willits, uponWest Walnut Lane; of B. Frank Kirk, upon East Washing-ton Lane; of Charles Stacy Pancoast, Esq., upon East John-son Street; of Mrs. H. S. Prentiss Nichols, upon PelhamRoad; each being a gem of distinct and particular worth. One of our quaintest gardens was that connected withthe Morris-Littell house, situated at southeast corner of Mainand High Streets. This many times has appeared in print,and
. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. r-gin, upon West Chelten Avenue; of Lambert Lare andJames Armstrong, upon East Haines Street; of Dr. NaamanH. Keyser, upon High Street; of Dr. I. Pearson Willits, uponWest Walnut Lane; of B. Frank Kirk, upon East Washing-ton Lane; of Charles Stacy Pancoast, Esq., upon East John-son Street; of Mrs. H. S. Prentiss Nichols, upon PelhamRoad; each being a gem of distinct and particular worth. One of our quaintest gardens was that connected withthe Morris-Littell house, situated at southeast corner of Mainand High Streets. This many times has appeared in print,and has been referred to as the original Witt garden. Theplace has many interests, among them being its connectionwith the Mystics of the Wissahickon, the discovery uponits grounds of the habits of the seventeen-year locusts byMiss Margaret H. Morris, and its occupancy by MissElizabeth Carrington Morris, a botanist, and the firstwoman elected to the Philadelphia Academy of the NaturalSciences. To this place came frequently Dr. William. I w 79 Darlington, a celebrated Chester County botanist, and authorof Florula Cestrica. Awbury extending from HainesStreet to Washington Lane, east of Chew Street, is one ofthe largest, one of the finest and on account of its family life,the most interesting of many home estates. It is like a greatpark, abounding with walks, drives, rare shrubs, trees, andrichly stored gardens. It is the home of the Cope, Haines,Emlen, and Lewis families, all related by birth or marriage,and of all the experiments in so-named community life, to meAwbury is the most practical and beautiful. Awburyhas had many gardeners, among them Peter McGowan, butshortly before his death, the late Francis R. Cope wroteme: Williams Saunders completed the laying out of ourgrounds at Awbury, but much of the work had been doneunder the supervision of my brother, Thomas P. Cope,before Saunders came to Germantown. It is an impossibility to properly present Wyck atthis time. The place is
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