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son now is. Myles Y. Warren, who was gardener to Moses 
Brown, built at the northwest corner of Rittenhouse Street 
and Wissahickon Avenue. John Kinnier, one of the most 
active men in the formation of the Germantown Horticultural 
Society, built upon Haines Street at the corner of Engle 
Street. Henry Haines upon Haines Street near Chew Street, 
where he was succeeded by John Henry, and Robert Gilmore. 
William Grassie followed Saunders at the southeast 
coiner of Greene and Johnson Streets, and David Cliff e, who 
came from Danville, Pa., to serve as foreman to Miller & 
Hayes, upon his retirement, built upon Johnson Street near 
Main Street, which place was after conducted by his son 
Walter, after by David Cliffe's widow, the same now being 
owned by Emil H. Geschick. Upon Main Street, above 
Mount Pleasant Avenue built Samuel E. Graver, where he 
yet continues. Upon East Mount Airy Avenue in 1882, 
Joseph E. Smith built, and also George S. Woodruff, the 
latter being succeeded by Henry C. Woltemate, the second. 
Upon Main Street near Mount Airy Avenue, Lewis Bilger 
built, and here associated with him was his son Oscar. Their 
successors were the "Mount Airy Floral Exchange," and 
Max H. Rothe, the present incumbent. John Savage located 
upon Cresheim Road near Mount Pleasant Avenue; Archi- 
bald Lawson, who had been gardener to Henry Howard 
Houston, of "Druim Moir," built upon Willow Grove 
Avenue, where the business is now conducted by his widow, 
Mary A. Lawson, and Louis Motsch, built upon Main Street 
near Willow Grove Avenue, — a place which has disappeared. 
Representatives of a class semi-professional, who traded, 
loaned, or sold the surplus of their growings, thereby 
benefitting their employers and proving a great convenience 
to the professionals, were Alexander Newitt, John Noonan, 
William J. Beatty, William Berger, P. McCormick, 
Alexander Lawson, and William Cochrane. There were also 
planning gardeners, those capable of "laying out work," 
such as Charles Speaker, Christian Shortwell, Cornelius 
Shine, and Anthony Virtue. Also competent jobbing garden- 
