Identifier: germantowngarden00jell (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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products which artand nature, combined with intelligence, and honest labor,were enabled to produce. Upon Main Street or near it, fromNegleys Hill to Chelten Avenue, are, or were several finegardens. Among these should be named the gardens ofToland, Mechlin, Henry, Heft, and Conyngham, upon MainStreet; the side lane gardens being those of T. CharltonHenry, upon Fishers Lane; Hackers, upon Wister Street;Rosengarten, Betton, Newhall, Justice, Erringer, and Price,gardens upon Manheim Street; G. Wilbur Russells uponSeymour Street; Carlton, upon Indian Queen Lane;Ivy Lodge, upon Shoemaker Lane; William Chancellor,Jacob Fry, Dr. William J. Campbell, E. W. Clark, JusticeC. Strawbridge, Jeremiah Brown, Moses Brown, George L.Harrison and William Weightmans gardens upon SchoolHouse Lane, and William Schaeffers upon Armat Street.These past and present gardens stand out conspicuously, butthere are many other gardens such as those of Francis B.Reeves, Joseph S. Lovering, Edward T. Steel, Dr. Samuel
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63 K. Ashton, and Samuel Welsh, which merit, and if spacepermitted, would receive our attention, but as they aremuch like the first named gardens, we shall pass them tobriefly present the former. Some possessed the classic box,others were known for their beautiful trees or hedges, andthat of G. Wilbur Russell, for whom Alexander Mooreserved as gardener, was noted for its exhibitions of massedblooms, and striking hedge of Rambler Roses. The beauty of Loudoun was in its position, for itsgarden in 1880 was of the ordinary utility variety as Iremember it. Here eighty years ago John Hart was garden-er. Adjoining Loudoun was Tolands, since 1886 theresidence of Charles M. Ballantine, conspicuous in later yearsfor its great bushes of box, its bordered walks, and for itsgrove of locust trees. Tolands farm home yet stands withits gable to the street, and in it, seventy-five years ago livedSquire Allimand, one of the village dignitaries. Northward adjoining Tolands, is Mechlins, now own-ed and o

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