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Bright's art was that of the "old school," especially in land- 
scaping, — where his outlines were harshly geometrical and 
all his plantings prim and symmetrical. The best specimen 
of his work existing is that of "Wakefield" upon Fisher's 
Lane, but the type best illustrating his style, is that shown in 
the work he did for his friend Thomas Drake, at northeast 
corner of Morton Street and Washington Lane, where the 
Christmas tree, park like stiffness of the school, is faithfully 
presented. 
The third of the quartette named was Robert Robinson 
Scott, gardener, writer, teacher, linguist, orator, and one of 
the most brilliant of the trained plant growers who came to 
America. He was born at Belfast, Ireland, in the year 1827, 
was a graduate of the Botanic Gardens of Glasneven, near 
Dublin, and also of Kew Gardens, London, where he was a 
fellow student with Thomas Meehan. He was connected 
with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Belfast, and was agri- 
cultural instructor at the agricultural school and model farm 
at Glasneven, Dublin. He was a public-spirited, aggressive 
man, and on account of his activity in the "Smith-O'Brien 
Rebellion," he found it necessary to emigrate, coming in the 
year 1848 to Philadelphia, where he took a position with 
Robert Buist. Scott after occupied the position of gardener 
to several important estates and had charge of the grounds of 
Girard College, Philadelphia. Upon coming to German- 
town, Scott at first became gardener to Samuel Emlen, whose 
garden was upon Coulter Street, and after located at No. 33 
West School House Lane, where he did a general gardening 
business, acted as agent for technical books and wrote for 
horticultural papers and magazines. He died at Harrisburg, 
Pa., June 24, 1877. His son, James Grimshaw Scott, fol- 
lowing in his father's footsteps, continues active among us, 
and is the popular and efficient chairman of the awarding 
committee of our local Horticultural Society. Robert Robin- 
son Scott possessed unusual literary and other artistic ability, 
and but a few years after reaching Philadelphia, he there 
founded, and in May, 1852, issued the first number of "The 
