156 TREES AND SHRUBS OF COURT HOUSE LAWN. 



then a member of the Board of Commissioners. Mr. Trainer 

 instructed Mr. Hewes to plant twent}- to thirty feet apait, and 

 not in rows, " in order that they might look as natural as pos- 

 sible." There were a few maples in the lawn already, but 

 these must have been of very recent planting. Mr. Hewes 

 thinks the trees were mostly elms, beeches and ash trees. He 

 used a " ten foot pole " in measuring, and thinks none were 

 planted less than ten feet apart. 



Mr. Lungren also finds a most interesting statement con- 

 cerning the matter of the Court House trees in a small pam- 

 phlet of sixty pages, under date of 1889, entitled " Media, 

 Penna. Its History and General Advantages," etc., pub- 

 lished by "A Committee of its Citizens," and printed by the 

 press of the Delazvarr Cotinty Amo'ican . An article on the 

 history of Media is from the pen of Hon. John M. Broomall, 

 a name of weight in this connection. We quote as follows 

 from this pamphlet : — 



" In the Court House Square ot Media are many trees, the 

 selections and gifts of John Evans. 



" They are the Turkey and Bur Oak ; Paitlo'a'uia imperi- 

 alism Koelrc2(teria panicidata, Elms, Ashes, Lindens, Sweet 

 Gum, Magnolias, Horse Chestnuts, Maples, Beeches and 

 Birches in variety ; with Larches, White Pine, Norway Spruce, 

 Balsam, Fir and other Conifers; and shrubbery in choice 

 varieties. 



The John Pvvans here named is he who died in [cS62 and 

 left on Itlian Creek that botanical garden the contents of 

 which still amaze the visitor with their extent and variety. 

 He was of the breed of Bartram and Marshall, though of a 

 later date, and his collections greatly surpassed those of his 

 famous predecessors. 



The reference to John Evans and his part in the planting 

 of the Court House trees, in this pamphlet, was written at a 

 time when an error on this subject wmild scarcelx- have passed 



