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ers many, such as Michael McGlinn, Joseph Martin, John 
Thompson, Samuel Brown, William McGregor, Patrick 
Gallagher, Bernard Connelly, Charles Malarky, Richard 
McGrath, Michael Geary, John Gorman, all of whom, and 
numerous others like, who did a general trimming, cutting 
and planting business. It was from these fields by "layer- 
ing," by "cuttings," or by seed plantings, that we have the 
trade as it is in Germantown this day, and that Germantown 
itself is as beautiful as it is. 
From the times of Pastorius, Logan, and Kuhn, until the 
present, Germantown has never been without botanists, — 
while the best American plant-students, such as Bartram, 
Muhlenberg, Nuttall, ' Rafinesque, Barton, Darlington, and 
Gray have visited it. As we cannot present all, let us name 
as representatives of a worthy group : Charles J. Wister, 
William Wynne Wister, Dr. D. H. Briggs, Edward D. Cope, 
Henry Carvill Lewis, William Kite, Dr. George Rex, and 
Miss Mary Cope of the past; and of the present; Miss Susan 
Kite, Roberts Le Boutillier, Edward Neville, Samuel S. Van 
Pelt, Herman T. Wolf, Rev. Francis Heyl, Prof. Witmer 
Stone, George Redles, Prof. Stewardson Brown, Dr. Spencer 
Trotter, Dr. I. Pearson Willits, Prof. George Kaiser, Dr. 
Herman Burgin, Dr. J. E. Burnett Buckenham, Robert F. 
Welsh, Mrs. William Redwood Wright, Richard H. Day, 
Clayton S. Wertsner, James Arnold, Morris E. Leeds, Miss 
Anna A. Gorgas, Frank Miles Day, Dr. William J. Camp- 
bell, Joseph Meehan, and Dr. James Darrach, — the nestor 
of Germantown Botanists, who, in 1853, presented a list of 
"Plants appearing in flower in the neighborhood of Philadel- 
phia from February to November." 
Looking from the present backward, we miss several 
important actors. From the busy field a few have retired to 
the "shades," others loiter in the "cool of the day," happily 
not a few continue to lead in paths which "guide into the 
way of peace," — for gardening is open, gentle, ennobling, 
one of the most delightful of occupations, because it is near- 
est to nature. The "greenhouses" of McKenzie, McMahon, 
