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K. Ashton, and Samuel Welsh, which merit, and if space 
permitted, would receive our attention, but as they are 
much like the first named gardens, we shall pass them to 
briefly present the former. Some possessed the classic box, 
others were known for their beautiful trees or hedges, and 
that of G. Wilbur Russell, for whom Alexander Moore 
served as gardener, was noted for its exhibitions of massed 
blooms, and striking hedge of Rambler Roses. 
The beauty of "Loudoun" was in its position, for its 
garden in 1880 was of the ordinary utility variety as I 
remember it. Here eighty years ago John Hart was garden- 
er. Adjoining Loudoun was "Toland's," since 1886 the 
residence of Charles M. Ballantine, conspicuous in later years 
for its great bushes of box, its bordered walks, and for its 
grove of locust trees. Toland's farm home yet stands with 
its gable to the street, and in it, seventy-five years ago lived 
Squire Allimand, one of the village dignitaries. 
Northward adjoining Toland's, is Mechlin's, now own- 
ed and occupied by Miss Jane Wagner, a flower lover, and 
a lineal descendant of General Peter Muhlenberg, he a friend 
to Christopher Saur, second, and at no time a stranger to 
Germantown. The beauty of the buttonwood trees once 
here, has departed, but Mechlin's garden of box and small 
fruits yet in part continue. Eastward upon Fisher's Lane is 
the garden of Edward H. Sanborn, wherein are magnificent 
trees, and beyond it is the rich garden continued from the 
plantings of T. Charlton Henry, by Lewis W. Wister, its 
present owner. This garden was brought to its perfection 
by Alexander W. Lawson, who served Mr. Henry many 
years, and who died March 11, 1892. Farther east upon 
Fisher's Lane, are the gardens of "Wakefield," and "Champ- 
lost," earlier noted. 
Passing now "Henry House" opposite Fisher's Lane 
on Main Street, the birthplace of Mayor Alexander Henry, 
whose garden was always a mass of bloom from early spring 
to fall, and also the garden of William H. Stoever, once at 
the southeast corner of Main and Mehl Streets, whose chief 
