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Francis Daniel Pastorius \*rote: "Anno 17 11, Christopher 
Witt removed his flower beds close to my fence," and in 
17 1 6, he dedicated a poem to "Christopher Witt's Fig 
Tree." Pastorius described his own as "a pretty little garden 
producing chiefly cordial, stomatic, and culinary herbs," and 
of it he again wrote : "what wonder you then, that F. D. P. 
likewise here many hours spends, and having no money, on 
usury lends, to's garden, and orchard, and vineyard, such 
times wherein he helps nature and nature his rhymes, because 
they produced him both victuals and drink, both medicine 
and nose-gays, and both paper and ink." 
After settling in the house of Christopher Warmer, No. 
2, Christopher Witt planted his second garden immediately 
north of the Pastorius garden, here as previously, Witt and 
Pastorius exchanging notes by tossing them over the division 
fence. It was this second garden of Dr. Witt, conducted by 
him when "well strickon in years," which John Bartram in 
1743 visited, and unfavorably criticised. 
In Germantown, during its formative period, as we 
have seen, homes were "few and far between," and all 
known gardens were given to the growing of kitchen and 
medicinal plants. But as the settlement progressed, roof- 
covered cellars gave way to houses of logs, so these in turn 
gave way to others of wood and stone. From 1683 to 1707 
were erected the stone houses of Thones Kunder, Jacob 
Telner, Isaac Dilbeck, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Jan Doeden, 
Jacob Schumacker, and other like, but doubtless the most 
pretentious house of the early settlement, was that of Hans 
Milan, built in 1690, and later incorporated in "Wyck." 
"Fair-Hill," east of the German tract, but frequently 
referred to in connection with it, was built in 17 16. Follow- 
ing this from the year 1727 to 1738, appeared the fore 
runners of the representative type, — "Stenton," "Billmeyer" 
or "Widow Deshler" and "Dirck Keyser Houses," and these 
with their grounds, mark the highest garden development of 
the first period. They also set the pace for the expansive 
period to follow. 
