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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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ouis, the elder son, after ashort engagement with Andrew Dryburgh in Philadelphia,became a general florist upon Queen Lane, near WayneStreet, and after established the well-known greenhouses atnortheast corner of Wayne and Manheim Streets, where hedid a wholesale and retail florists business from i860 untilhis death in 1891. For many years, and indeed until hisdeath, Louis Clapier Baumann had the largest and mostimportant flower growing establishment in Germantown, andhis output of cut flowers and roses was enormous. It was hewho introduced the use of smilax in cut-flower work, and noone in all Philadelphia was able to equal him in the makingof bouquets. His foreman for many years was Isaac Warr,a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, and here also thewriter as apprentice and journeyman served from the year1875 until the year 1885,—during this period becoming ac-quainted with the present generation of local gardeners andflorists, and such widely known plant growers of the last gen-
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L. C. Baumann 45 eration as Robert J. Halliday, of Baltimore, and Peter Hen-derson, of New York. Many now well-known florists were once in L. C.Baumanns employ, and a few of his employees who afterbecame conspicuous in other lines, were Hon. William E.Meehan, writer; Alexander Harrison, and Birge Harrison,artists and writers; William G. Shields, register of wills ofPhiladelphia; John J. Harrison, State Senator of Pennsyl-vania; Judge William G. Holt, of Kansas City, Kans., andCharles E. Meehan, Superintendent of the PhiladelphiaFlower Market. George A. Baumann first located as a florist uponMain Street, opposite Manheim Street, and after upon thenortheast corner of Main Street and Chelten Avenue, wherethe post office now is, from which place he removed to thewest side of Wayne Street, between Handsberry and Man-heim Streets, where he conducted a nursery. He after be-came a farmer and a general truck grower at Center Square,Montgomery County, Pa., and finally settled upon Fair-thorne A

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