172 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



John Evans was eminently a thinking man. He was 

 liberal, almost to a fault, in the distribution of plants 

 among such of his friends as he believed would jDroperly 

 care for them. 



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

 reached from Rosemont, a station on the Pennsylvania Rail- 

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

 Creek. The house, rebuilt in 1895-96, is on a hill sur- 

 rounded by fine 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 AVilliam 

 H. Ramsey, the present occupant. Mrs. Paxson now resides 

 in Xorristown, Pennsylvania."^ 



DR. JOHN FOTHERQILL WATERHOUSE. 



Dr. John Fothergill AYaterhousef 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 1813. Upon the 

 completion of his studies, and at the solicitation of his 

 friends, he fixed his permanent residence in his adopted 



*See an article of mine— "John Evans and his Garden"— in Garden and 

 Forest, X : 1S2 ; also Mr. Thomas Meehan's review of this article in the same journal, 

 p. 198. 



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