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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
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S. Keyser, who occupied offices belonging to andbeside the Philadelphia Library. They introduced anotherof our tenants, N. B. Browne, and passed together the au-tumn of 1859 in devising some method for procuring for thecity the next country place, formerly of James C. Fisher, thenowned by Ferdinand J. Dreer. Meeting with repeated failures and becoming discour-aged, Keyser and Castle came to Ivy Lodge, where planswere discussed and an organization was effected, public meet-ings were after held, and the first contribution to the fundwas $1000.00 by Alfred Cope, who subsequently increasedit to $10,000.00, his brother Henry contributing a likeamount. From this entering wedge, much management ofthe public mind from every press that could be taught, bylittle and little and preserving talent, the work has prospereduntil today all the taxpayers are greatly alarmed over theextensive additions to our city debt. Fairmount Park is areality, its benefits and blessings are no longer debatable, its
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Charles S. Keyseb KV 95 worth is recognized by all, but as yet in it there is no memo-rial to its founders, and with this suggestion let me conclude. There are many, very many, gardens distributedthroughout our territory worthy of special mention, butas stated, and oft repeated, our limitations will not permit.We, however, trust that enough has been given to presentGermantown as a Garden Home, a place helpful to happi-ness, a goodly place to dwell in, a place fitted to lift thedownhearted, help view with reverence the divinity ex-pressed in the Creators manifold beauties, so that all maythankfully appreciate their abounding blessings. I oftenwonder how many who pass up and down our Main Streetrealize what a wonderful street it is, that is—apart from itshistoric associations? While the trees and gardens havealmost disappeared from the old streets of Philadelphia, ourown central avenue from Turnpike Bridge to Mt. St. Jo-sephs, is brightened by gardens of bloom, and throughoutits lengt

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