. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. James Logan i5 From a certain view-point, Fair Hill is apart fromfrom our subject, but from another one, it has much to dowith it, for without question, it was the model upon whichthe Germantown early gardens of the better class were afterpatterned, and from it, at a later period was issued thecelebrated Farmer Letters of John Dickinson. Only ashort time before his death, Pastorius referred to Fair HillGarden as the one keeping the finest I hitherto have seenin the whole country, fitted with abundance of rarities,physical, and metaphysical. Of it, Deborah Lo
. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. James Logan i5 From a certain view-point, Fair Hill is apart fromfrom our subject, but from another one, it has much to dowith it, for without question, it was the model upon whichthe Germantown early gardens of the better class were afterpatterned, and from it, at a later period was issued thecelebrated Farmer Letters of John Dickinson. Only ashort time before his death, Pastorius referred to Fair HillGarden as the one keeping the finest I hitherto have seenin the whole country, fitted with abundance of rarities,physical, and metaphysical. Of it, Deborah Logan later wrote, Fair Hill, builtand occupied by Isaac N orris, was considered the mostbeautiful country seat in Pennsylvania. The courts andgardens were in the taste of those times with gravel walksand parterres. Many lofty trees were preserved around thehouse, which added greatly to its beauty and at the time ofmy remembrance the out-buildings were covered withfestoons of ivy, and scarlet bignonia. Contemporaneous with the garden
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