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attractions were a profusion of fuschias and geraniums, which 
were trained upon trellises, and which extended from the 
garden beds to the second story windows of the house, we 
turn into Wister Street to view the wild flower garden of 
George Redles, the two "Hacker" gardens, both noted for 
their rare trees, and "Belfield," to which reference has 
already been made. At 210 Wister Street also lived George 
Redles, Sr., and near in "Spring Alley" opposite Wister 
Street, lived Frederick Fleckenstein, his mutual friend — both 
plant students and collectors, and numbered among German- 
town's best botanists. Not associated with these, but widely 
known and affectionately remembered by lovers of old 
books, was "Peter Peppercorn," who passed his declining 
days and died in Germantown near the Wissahickon he so 
fondly loved. Emmanuel Price was a superior man, — a 
botanist, whose love for our native wild flowers surged into 
pleasing verse, such as : — 
"With its high, craggy banks crowned with chestnut and cedar, 
Where the hemlock and tulip tree wave in the gale, 
And its margins are clothed with oak, maple and willow, 
The sweet Wissahickon, the gem of the vale." 
We retrace to Bockius Lane, now known as Manheim 
Street, and so named by Jacque Marie Roset, "in honor of a 
German town whose inhabitants he admired." Roset was 
fond of flowers and had a fine garden in which dahlias pre- 
dominated. Townsend Ward states that when Fanny 
Kemble passed Roset's home upon her usual morning ride, 
the gallant old gentlemen always had a bouquet in waiting 
for her. Both Fanny Kemble and her daughter, Mrs. Owen 
J. Wister, were fond of saddle riding, and their usual route 
to Wissahickon, — a place they loved,^was by Duy's Lane, 
Manheim Street, and Wissahickon Avenue. Once, while 
passing out Manheim Street, Fanny Kemble's horse became 
frightened, when she was thrown, painfully hurt, and was 
taken to L. C. Baumann's residence until she had sufficiently 
recovered to proceed. Roset died in the year 1844, and was 
buried in Trinity Lutheran grounds, where in after years, 
was laid his friend and neighbor Martin Baumann. 
