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wealth of hardy perennials, with many familiar shrubs such 
as calycanthus, "snow ball," Persian and common lilacs, and 
with large tracts of lily-of-the-valley. Some of the box-bushes 
and shrubs yet continue, but the "old garden" beds have been 
completely sodded over. Under the direction of Miss 
Elizabeth Johnson, its owner, the present garden was con- 
structed and cared for by Patrick Murray, who served here as 
gardener for more than 30 years. 
Ellwood Johnson's Garden yet contains "Lily-of-the- 
Valley," and "Marie Louise" roses, descendants of the stock 
of the original garden. It also contains many rare shrubs 
and trees, but these we may not stop to note. About a 
charming "springhouse" from which a copious stream dis- 
charges to "Honey Run" yet stand three magnificent 
specimens of swamp cypress, planted by Israel Haupt, for 
Peter Keyser. 
"Pomona Grove," which possessed the next garden of 
importance as we proceed northward upon Main Street, has 
been presented so often that we shall only refer to it. In 
the publications of our Society, it has been most interestingly 
presented by Miss Mary W. Shoemaker. The garden was 
first developed under Col. Thomas Forrest; improved by 
James S. Duval, whose gardener in 1846 was John Parkins. 
It was entirely reconstructed under the expert direction of 
William Saunders by Isaac F. Baker, further improved by 
Robert C. Cornelius, whose gardener was John Meghran, 
and brought to its highest perfection by Amos R. Little, who 
became widely known as a Centennial Commissioner, who 
made a trip around the world, Mrs. Little preserving same 
in "The World as We Saw It." Within the garden was a 
spring at which several Virginia troopers were killed at the 
Battle of Germantown. The exact site of this spring is the 
cellar of house Number 162 East Duval Street. Here also 
was a remarkable yew tree already referred to, which had no 
equal in America. The area the garden occupied from 
Washington Lane to Duval Street, Main Street to Morton 
Street, is now almost entirely built over. 
