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over "Green's Meadow" and the unbroken expanse of open 
fields, which extended from "White Cottage," to "Loudoun," 
in search of wild flowers. It may also be worth remembering 
that from Manheim Street south, Plum Lane had a notable 
row of Buttonwood trees, extended along its western line, 
which were destroyed when the lane was widened. A few 
years ago while placing a new water-main, the stumps of this 
line of trees were uncovered upon the present center line of 
Pulaski Avenue. With old residents this section of German- 
town is yet known as "the Nursery," thus serving as a 
memorial to its planter, for within the boundaries given, 
Martin Baumann served the community, lived out his life, 
he dying in the year 1865, and his remains were placed in 
Trinity Lutheran Church Yard, at corner of Main Street 
and Queen Lane. Baumann's nursery grounds are almost 
entirely built over, and the frame house in which he long 
lived, last numbered 220 Manheim Street, was removed in 
the summer of 1909. Baumann distributed both garden and 
hot-house plants, and his growings were regulated to satisfy 
local needs or demands. 
With this superficial presentation, we shall pass to what 
we have been pleased to name the modern period, under 
which we hope to name several gardens begun in the middle 
period, but which reached a more perfect development after 
the "new order" had started on its way, for it is obvious that 
within reasonable limits it is impossible to completely present 
the development of the better class of home gardens, and 
indeed those gardens which survived will better serve as an 
introduction to the concluding period, for in it they reached a 
higher, if not their highest development. As noted by John 
Fanning Watson, the credit for the improvements in gardens 
was largely due to the efforts of nurserymen like McMahon, 
and Maupay, who made their gardens objects of attraction, 
furnishing thereby worthy patterns for others to follow. 
Early in the development period, as well as in the first 
period, all gardens were of the prevailing regulation type, — 
that is, if there was more than a kitchen or herb garden, the 
