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While Thomas Meehan and David Rodney King were 
engaged in developing "The Gardeners Monthly," Charles 
H. Miller, the well known landscape gardener came to 
America. Charles H. Miller was born at Winchester, 
England, in the year 1829. After receiving a thorough 
engineering training, and passing through "Kew Gardens," 
he embarked to America in the year 1858, and located in 
South Carolina. On leaving that state he came to Pennsyl- 
vania, where he had charge of several fine estates, his first 
position in Germantown being with D. Rodney King, whose 
house and garden were on the east side of Adams Street, 
now McCallum Street, north of Washington Lane, a place 
after owned and occupied by George Nugent. 
In the year 1863, Mr. Miller settled upon Main Street 
near Gowen Avenue, Mount Airy, where he became engaged 
in general landscaping. In the year 1875 he was made chief 
of the Bureau of Horticulture for the centennial exhibition, 
and from the date of the exhibition until the present time, 
his "Sunken Gardens" in season, yet continue one of Fair- 
mount Park attractions. In the year 1876 Mr. Miller 
formed a partnership with Charles P. Hayes who was already 
established, the firm becoming known as Miller & Hayes, or 
the "Mount Airy Nurseries." About the year 1880, Mr. 
Hayes decided to retire, and David G. Yates, who had 
been chief of the Bureau of Admissions of the Centennial 
Exhibition, bought his interest when the firm's name became 
Miller & Yates. In the year 1887, Mr. Miller planned to 
give his entire time to landscaping and retired commerically, 
when the ownership passed to David G. Yates & Co. Upon 
the death of the senior member, Thaddeus N. Yates & Co. 
followed. 
At the close of the Centennial Exhibition, Charles H. 
Miller, as chief gardener, was placed in charge of the floral 
decoration of Fairmount Park, his office being in Horti- 
cultural Hall, and here under him served John Finnety, and 
George Ballantine, both well known local florists, and John 
Welsh Young, the popular rose-grower of "Spring Bank," 
