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under his care a scion from the "Treaty Tree" of Kensington, 
with several plants of ivy grown upon the William Penn 
estate in Ireland. A "Treaty Tree" from Godfrey farm on 
Mill Street, transplanted by Mr. Watson to front of his old 
home upon Main Street below Shoemaker's Lane, which 
there long flourished, has disappeared, and is now referred to 
only to show the pleasure of a mind which made a link to 
connect William Penn, and the inventor of the quadrant, with 
the writer of the "Declaration of Independence." 
Proceeding northward upon Main Street, the next gar- 
den of prominence abo^e Vernon, and much resembling it, 
was that of Samuel Harvey, Burgess of Germantown, whose 
place, named "Rose Cottage," is now covered by the Town 
Hall, and next above it was the old-fashioned box garden 
of Benjamin Engle, whose house was built in 1758, and 
wherein, John Melchior Meng died in the year 18 12. 
About central Germantown, were, or are, many superior 
gardens which may only be referred to : The garden of Mrs. 
J. R. Sprague upon Woodbine Avenue ; of Dr. Herman Bur- 
gin, upon West Chelten Avenue; of Lambert Lare and 
James Armstrong, upon East Haines Street; of Dr. Naaman 
H. Keyser, upon High Street; of Dr. I. Pearson Willits, upon 
West Walnut Lane; of B. Frank Kirk, upon East Washing- 
ton Lane; of Charles Stacy Pancoast, Esq., upon East John- 
son Street; of Mrs. H. S. Prentiss Nichols, upon Pelham 
Road; each being a gem of distinct and particular worth. 
One of our quaintest gardens was that connected with 
the M orris-Li ttell house, situated at southeast corner of Main 
and High Streets. This many times has appeared in print, 
and has been referred to as the original Witt garden. The 
place has many interests, among them being its connection 
with the "Mystics of the Wissahickon," the discovery upon 
its grounds of the habits of the seventeen-year locusts by 
Miss Margaret H. Morris, and its occupancy by Miss 
Elizabeth Carrington Morris, a botanist, and the first 
woman elected to the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural 
Sciences. To this place came frequently Dr. William 
