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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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A garden celebrated for its production of
dahlias, and for a variety of other excellent flowers, also for
its beautiful borders of box, was that of William M. Bayard,
a flower-loving enthusiast, to whom Peter McGowan for
many years was gardener.
" Phil-Ellena " we have referred to. George W. Carpen-
ter, its builder, was a chemist, who rapidly amassed a for-
tune and improved his property. Its last gardener was
David Joyce, who after the surrender of Phil-Ellena to
Pelham, laid out and had charge of Willow Grove Park,
while his brother established himself commercially upon
Washington Lane, east of Chew Street. David Joyce was an
able gardener, as was also his brother William, who was gar-
dener to Matthias W. Baldwin. Carpenter Mansion and its
adornments lost their identity in the year 1893, and the spa-
cious grounds once surrounding are now almost completely
built upon. What remains of its once varied collections may
now be seen at the Academy of the Natural Sciences of Phila-
delphia, in Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park, or may occa-
sionally be stumbled upon in unexpected places elsewhere.
Ellen Olney Kirk, a well-known home writer, in her popular
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AFTER A STORM AT PHILLA-ELLENA, DAVID JOYCE.

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novels frequently has honored Germantown. She dedicated
a book to " J. R. H.," and pleasantly described the gardens
of " Wyck,"—and also the gardens and Clock-Tower of
" Phil-Ellena."
Proceeding northward upon Wissahickon Avenue, from
" Merrick's Place," are several fine gardens, which we may
only refer to. These are the gardens of George C. Thomas,
to whom Conrad Sible was gardener, whose garden, with its
choice collections, have become a part of Fairmount Park,
—the old-fashioned attractive garden of Samuel Welsh, Jr.,
cared for by John Sible, the rose and hardy perennial garden
of N. DuBois Miller, Esq., nearby; Spring Bank, the home
of Hon. John Welsh, whose noble trees, velvety meadow
slopes, and richly stored garden were cultivated by Harman
Krugar, whose son, born upon the place, is now President of
the Philadelphia Traction Company,—and after by Martin
L. Constable, who now lives upon the Thomas estate, and
has charge of the shrubbery upon Lincoln Drive,—the
rose-growing plant of John Welsh Young, nearby, and the
ardens of Mrs. James B. Young, Cornelius Weygandt, Dr.
George Strawbridge, and Thomas P. C. Stokes, all grouped
between Hortter and Frank Streets, and near — and last, but
not least, the charming retreat near Carpenter Lane of Wil-
liam E. Chapman, Secretary of the Site and Relic Society
whose many virtues outshine the products of his grounds and
endear him to everyone who has the privilege of his acquaint-
ance.

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