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Darlington, a celebrated Chester County botanist, and author 
of Florula Cestrica. "Awbury" extending from Haines 
Street to Washington Lane, east of Chew Street, is one of 
the largest, one of the finest and on account of its family life, 
the most interesting of many home estates. It is like a great 
park, abounding with walks, drives, rare shrubs, trees, and 
richly stored gardens. It is the home of the Cope, Haines, 
Emlen, and Lewis families, all related by birth or marriage, 
and of all the experiments in so-named community life, to me 
"Awbury" is the most practical and beautiful. "Awbury" 
has had many gardeners, among them Peter McGowan, but 
shortly before his death, the late Francis R. Cope wrote 
me: "Williams Saunders completed the laying out of our 
grounds at 'Awbury,' but much of the work had been done 
under the supervision of my brother, Thomas P. Cope, 
before Saunders came to Germantown." 
It is an impossibility to properly present "Wyck" at 
this time. The place is so stocked with treasures, collective, 
scientific, and historic, so beautiful from whatever aspect 
viewed, that superficially I hesitate to present it at all, yet 
no one may refer to Germantown Gardens without including 
it, for it is the gem among many. I shall therefore try to 
give a glimpse of it, for the garden lies west of the house, 
and cannot be seen from the street, and as owing to its 
owner's precarious health, but few are admitted to it, its 
worth therefore is not widely known. 
Upon March 3, 1908, Miss Haines wrote me: "I 
believe my old garden was laid out by my mother, Mrs. J. B. 
Haines, as I have a rough sketch with notes in her hand. I 
presume it was about 1821, or 22, as that was the time that 
my parents removed to 'Wyck' permanently, having previous- 
ly only resided here in the summer. I remember when the 
asparagus bed, surrounded by currant bushes, still occupied 
the plot by the street, where the hedge now it. At that time, 
the paths were covered with tan from Engle's old tannery." 
The garden is formal in design, but so cleverly covered 
by shrubbery, trellises, and resting places, that one may 
