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always reminded me of Christopher Ludwig, as the descrip- 
tions of contemporaries convey that worthy character to me. 
Amos was loud and genial, everywhere he was made welcome, 
and was beloved by all who knew him. Knapp was not suc- 
cessful, and temporarily accepted a position with Louis C. 
Baumann, and Dressier after, resumed his business of florist 
at the old stand. Knapp did not stay long with Baumann, for 
an opening came, and he leased the Webb greenhouses, 
located at Mermaid Station, Chestnut Hill, where he con- 
tinued until his death. This same place for a time was 
conducted by Andrew Brunt, but for many years it has been 
owned by Frederick Knapp's son, Charles. 
For almost 50 years, the nurseries of McMahon, 
Maupay, and Baumann, continued to supply the plantings 
for the gardens of Germantown, — or until the appearance of 
Meehan and Saunders, to whom we shall refer later. Martin 
Baumann had two sons, Louis Clapier, and George A., both 
born at "Fern Hill," and each left the Manheim Street home- 
stead to become flower growers. Louis, the elder son, after a 
short engagement with Andrew Dryburgh in Philadelphia, 
became a general florist upon Queen Lane, near Wayne 
Street, and after established the well-known greenhouses at 
northeast corner of Wayne and Manheim Streets, where he 
did a "wholesale and retail" florist's business from i860 until 
his death in 1891. For many years, and indeed until his 
death, Louis Clapier Baumann had the largest and most 
important flower growing establishment in Germantown, and 
his output of cut flowers and roses was enormous. It was he 
who introduced the use of smilax in "cut-flower work," and no 
one in all Philadelphia was able to equal him in the making 
of bouquets. His foreman for many years was Isaac Warr, 
a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars, and here also the 
writer as apprentice and journeyman served from the year 
1875 until the year 1885, — during this period becoming ac- 
quainted with the present generation of local gardeners and 
florists, and such widely known plant growers of the last gen- 
