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gardeners who should receive special recognition, because of 
their worth, such as John Warr, gardener to Joseph M. Fox 
at "Wakefield;" Samuel Alexander, gardener to Benjamin 
H. Shoemaker; William S. Beasley, gardener to Thomas B. 
Homer, Robert Morrison, gardener to Benjamin Ketcham, 
and John McCleary, gardener to William Weightman 
and Mrs. F. C. Penfield, and many others like. Mem- 
bers of the same class who have passed on were George 
Fender, gardener to Charles H. Spencer; Henry Diehl, 
gardener to Edward T. Steel; Philip McCaffey, gardener to 
John S. Haines; John Noonan, gardener to R. S. Peabody; 
Joseph McGregor, gardener long in charge of the Zoological 
Gardens, Philadelphia, and many others. There are also 
many yet active but now engaged in other fields, among the 
number being Michael Sammon, Frank Smith, Alexander 
Young, John McNeill, Matthew Bracken, and William 
Wilkie, but these names will suffice. 
Now leaving commercial floricultural fields, let us 
proceed to a hurried consideration of the products which art 
and nature, combined with intelligence, and honest labor, 
were enabled to produce. Upon Main Street or near it, from 
Negley's Hill to Chelten Avenue, are, or were several fine 
gardens. Among these should be named the gardens of 
Toland, Mechlin, Henry, Heft, and Conyngham, upon Main 
Street; the side lane gardens being those of T. Charlton 
Henry, upon Fisher's Lane; Hacker's, upon Wister Street; 
Rosengarten, Betton, Newhall, Justice, Erringer, and Price, 
gardens upon Manheim Street; G. Wilbur Russell's upon 
Seymour Street; "Carlton," upon Indian Queen Lane; 
"Ivy Lodge," upon Shoemaker Lane; William Chancellor, 
Jacob Fry, Dr. William J. Campbell, E. W. Clark, Justice 
C. Strawbridge, Jeremiah Brown, Moses Brown, George L. 
Harrison and William Weightman's gardens upon School 
House Lane, and William Schaeffer's upon Armat Street. 
These past and present gardens stand out conspicuously, but 
there are many other gardens such as those of Francis B. 
Reeves, Joseph S. Lovering, Edward T. Steel, Dr. Samuel 
