!<_' T1IK BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



John Evans was eminently a thinking man. He was 



liberal, almost hi a fault, in tin- distribution of plains 

 aiming such of his friend- as he believed would prop ( -rly 

 care l<>r them. 



The garden, which exists much as the botanist left it, is 

 reached tVom Rosemont, a station on the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road, by following Robert's Koad to the far side of Ithan 

 Creek. The house, rebuilt in iS'J.V.n;, is on a hill sur- 

 rounded by line trees, which John Evans planted. The 

 mill-race plunges over in front of the house in a small 

 water-fall, which marks the site where the mill stood. The 

 spring-house was torn down, but everything else, with the 

 exception of two trees, stands as in the botanist's day. 

 His daughter married David Paxson, who sold the property 

 to Dr. James M. Harrison, who in turn sold it to William 

 H. Ramsey, the present occupant, Mrs. Paxson now reside- 

 in Xorristown, Pennsylvania.* 



DR. JOHN FOTHERGILL WATERHOUSE. 



Dr. John Fothergill "Waterhousef was born at Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts, in 1791, and received his classical and 

 the rudiments of his medical education at Harvard Univer- 

 sity. The pre-eminent reputation of the Medical School of 

 the University of Pennsylvania induced him to complete 

 his medical education in Philadelphia, where he graduated 

 as Doctor of Medicine in the spring of isi:',. I'pon the 

 completion of his studies, and at the solicitation of his 

 friends, he iixed his permanent residence in his adopted 



*Scr an ni-tii-lf nt in inr .loliil Kviins anil his ( iimlrii " ill (inrdfii <ni<l 

 Forest, X : I^'J; also Mr. Thomas Mri-hun'* ri'vicxv ol' this urlick' in the sunu- juiinuil, 

 p. 198. 



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