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Mr. Chandler, Henry Neilson, gardener; as well as that of 
Mr. Nixon, Frank Smith, gardener; were noted for their 
vegetables and small fruits. The most noted exhibits in the 
garden of Col. Morris were a double flowering Japanese 
cherry, and a fine cedar of Lebanon. Keyser's garden, east 
side of Main Street, at corner of Tulpehocken Street has 
long been widely known for its old fashioned plants of 
rarity and superior culture. Plants not procurable at a com- 
mercial establishment usually might be found here, and I 
doubt whether any florist is able to show better results, than 
those procured by Miss Amelia Wood, the skillful grower. 
The Keyser garden is situated in the midst of an area which 
was overrun by the "Morus Multicaulus" craze of 1840. At 
that time, nearly every one in Germantown, led by Philip 
Physick, who had a few acres, and a few spare dollars, plant- 
ed mulberry trees for feeding silk worms, and it is a pity that 
so much energy and so much faith should have come to 
naught, for the enterprise in its incipiency was commend- 
able, promoting home industry, and was truly patriotic. In 
my youth there were several fine gardens upon West Tulpe- 
hocken Street, among the most prominent being those of 
Thomas H. Shoemaker, Mrs. Lewis Taws, and Henry 
Howard Houston. At the northwest corner of Main Street 
and Washington Lane, is the Johnson Garden, and above it, 
adjoining is the Peter Keyser garden, but as Ellwood John- 
son succeeded Peter Keyser, and as he and his sister, 
Elizabeth kept "open grounds," both gardens may be 
presented as one. In the year 1908, Miss Anna W. Johnson 
wrote me she believed the old garden was planned and planted 
by her great-grandmother, Rachel Livezey, daughter of John 
Livezey of Wissahickon, and wife of John J. Johnson, for 
whom the well-known homestead was built at the time of their 
marriage in 1768, and it is known the garden was completely 
established before the leaving of the place by them in the 
year 1805. 
The garden was of the familiar type of the period, 
having box-bordered walks, with planted bed revelling in a 
