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town, where he built on Shoemaker's Lane, near Main 
Street, "Ivy Lodge," which he occupied in December, 1850, 
and where he continued to dwell and work until his death, 
September 23, 188 1. The fine garden at "Ivy Lodge" was 
planted under his direction, and some of the trees there 
were placed by his own hands. Wrote Thomas Meehan in 
"The Gardeners' Monthly" for December, 1 881, —"The 
grounds around Mr. Smith's beautiful residence in German- 
town are a remarkable piece of successful landscape garden- 
ing. They are so arranged that one might wander about the 
place for an hour and still continue to find objects of interest, 
and scarcely realize the fact when ultimately informed that 
this charming spot with its beautiful lawn, belts of shrubbery, 
numerous rare trees and shrubs, fruit gardens, vegetable 
garden, greenhouse, stable, etc., are all on a small city lot 
of less than two acres. Tvy Lodge' is a singular triumph 
of garden art." 
In connection with this garden an interesting fact is 
recited in "Recollections of John Jay Smith" edited by 
Elizabeth P. Smith. John Jay Smith while in England and 
visiting Granville John Penn, wrote, "one morning at my 
suggestion we (Mr. Penn and I), planted two cedars of 
Lebanon, which he procured for the purpose, and named 
them the Treaty Trees of Penn and Logan. He informed 
me at a later period that they are growing finely. This 
operation was repeated at my garden in Germantown, 185 1, 
where the Penn Cedar still flourishes. (1872)" 
For 21 years, John Jay Smith was librarian to the 
Loganian and Philadelphia Libraries. To the American 
public he introduced straw paper, after so generally used for 
newspaper work. In 185 1, he was a commissioner to 
England to secure for removal to America, the great Crystal 
Palace Exhibition, for which in part he was successful. He 
was indeed a remarkable man who during a long life was 
busily engaged in beneficent works. 
John Jay Smith's literary work was varied and abund- 
ant, but we may refer only to his "Guide to Laurel Hill 
