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MEDIA 
PAINTERS ARBORETUM (DISCONTINUED) 
Established: About 1825. Discontinued “ sometime in the ’seven- 
ties.” Area: About 4 acres. 
Location: Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania 
—three miles from Media. 
Founders: Jacob and Minshall Painter (brothers). 
Note: H. S. Connard (Proc. Delaware County Institute of Sci- 
ence 7: No. 1. 1-14. May, 1914) stated that as late as 1898 
the site of this Garden contained “one of the richest and rarest 
collections of trees and shrubs in this vicinity.” He gives a par- 
tial list of them (as of 1898), comprising eighty genera and about 
117 species, including the Cutter-dock (Petasites), Sequoia gi- 
gantea, Cedar of Lebanon, and Gordonia (Franklinia). A de- 
scription of the ecology of this area is given by T. Chalkley Palmer 
in The Westonian, Vol. 30, No. 4, Autumn, 1929. In this article 
Mr. Palmer records the fact that this area, part of a tract of some 
800 acres or more, was, in 1929, in the ownership of Mr. John J. 
Tyler, of Germantown (Philadelphia), a nephew of the Painter 
brothers. As of 1936 Mr. Gerard Ronon, of Philadelphia, was 
Trustee of the property. Our questionnaire was not returned. 
MERION 
ARBORETUM OF THE BARNES FOUNDATION 
Merion, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania 
Established: 1923. Area: 11 acres. 
Director: Mrs. A. C. Barnes (1923- MN 
Admission by request. Source of income: Barnes Foundation. 
See article by Frank A. Schrepper, The Arboretum of the Barnes 
Foundation. (Landscape Architecture 25: 21-26. Oct. 1935.) 
PHIEADELPHIA 
Awsury ARBORETUM 
Germantown, Philadelphia 
Established: 1918. Area: 65 acres. 
Directors: Arthur W. Cowell (1919-?); Howard S. Kneedler, 
Jr. (1935- 
