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Society," and John Jay Smith was its founder. Eastward 
adjoining Ivy Lodge was the fine estate of Mrs. Willing. 
The grounds were spacious and sheltered by numerous 
beautiful trees. Gardener here for many years was Richard 
Graham, and later Joseph Camp, who died in the year 1892. 
The grounds are now entirely built over. At the northeast 
corner of Baynton Street lived Thomas Mackeller, a nature 
lover and the possessor of a garden crowded with rare and 
beautiful trees. The garden has now fallen into disuse and 
much of its charm is gone. To me there are four distinctive 
types of "landscaping" in our Germantown gardens. When- 
ever in the garden at "Grumblethorpe" I think it the most 
beautiful garden of the perennial type in our midst. Whenever 
in the garden at "Wyck," I feel that there is our finest speci- 
men of the "wild flower garden" type. Another type is that 
shown upon the grounds of Thomas Drake, East Washing- 
ton Lane and Morton Streets, a stiff, geometrical, and to me 
a negative type, which I have always thought had better not 
been born. The last of the types in mind is the "classical," 
picturesque, dignified, impressive type, most beautifully 
exhibited upon the grounds of Elliston P. Morris, Main 
Street opposite Mill Street, where through the open gate, 
glimpses of this garden gem may be enjoyed. The original 
garden here was of the ordinary flower and vegetable type, 
and we need only refer to it. The present arrangement and 
effects were planned by Charles H. Miller in the year 1867. 
In arranging the new garden, the trees of the first garden 
were not disturbed, and several trees now somewhat the 
worse by reason of destructive storms, are supposed to have 
been part of the place when President Washington occupied 
it. 
The garden is 100 feet wide and 435 feet long, and 
throughout it is most beautiful. Several of the trees were 
by Dr. John A. Warder, an eminent authority, pronounced 
unique, and in it impressive specimens of box are known to 
be over 100 years old. 
In "Rare and Notable Plants of Germantown," the 
