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in bloom in their native soil (I suppose) in Rome, I recalled 
the dear old plant. When greenhouses were scarce, it was a 
great treat to have a few plants blooming steadily all winter. 
We had a small Daphne, not equal to the large one Miss 
Ann Chew had in their hall by the front window, but I recall 
a fine wax-plant which bloomed around a window in a warm 
parlor, and mignonette in the room, and an old lemon-ver- 
bena that has lived for half a century." 
With its green-bordered, flower-laden arbored walks, 
about and near the mansion, unique shrubs and trees and wide 
and open grassy fields stretching far to the rear, Upsula, 
upon our busy Main Street, is a rural gem of never-failing 
beauty. The gardens of Michael Billmeyer, at Upsal Street, 
and of "Longfield," owned by R. P. McCullough, and now 
covered by "Pelham Depot," were box-bordered of the 
standard type. A garden celebrated for its production of 
dahlias, and for a variety of other excellent flowers, also for 
its beautiful borders of box, was that of William M. Bayard, 
a flower-loving enthusiast, to whom Peter McGowan for 
many years was gardener. 
"Phil-Ellena" we have referred to. George W. Carpen- 
ter, its builder, was a chemist, who rapidly amassed a for- 
tune and improved his property. Its last gardener was 
David Joyce, who after the surrender of "Phil-Ellena" to 
Pelham, "laid out" and had charge of Willow Grove Park, 
while his brother established himself commercially upon 
Washington Lane, east of Chew Street. David Joyce was an 
able gardener, as was also his brother William, who was gar- 
dener to Matthias W. Baldwin. Carpenter Mansion and its 
adornments lost their identity in the year 1893, and the spa- 
cious grounds once surrounding are now almost completely 
built upon. What remains of its once varied collections may 
now be seen at the Academy of the Natural Sciences of Phila- 
delphia, in Horticultural Hall, Fairmount Park, or may occa- 
sionally be stumbled upon in unexpected places elsewhere. 
Ellen Olney Kirk, a well-known home writer, in her popular 
