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worth is recognized by all, but as yet in it there is no memo- 
rial to its founders, and with this suggestion let me conclude. 
There are many, very many, gardens distributed 
throughout our territory worthy of "special mention," but 
as stated, and oft repeated, our limitations will not permit. 
We, however, trust that enough has been given to present 
Germantown as a Garden Home, a place helpful to happi- 
ness, a goodly place to dwell in, a place fitted to lift the 
"downhearted," help view with reverence the divinity ex- 
pressed in the Creator's manifold beauties, so that all may 
thankfully appreciate their abounding blessings. I often 
wonder how many who pass up and down our Main Street 
realize what a wonderful street it is, that is — apart from its 
historic associations? While the trees and gardens have 
almost disappeared from the old streets of Philadelphia, our 
own central avenue from "Turnpike Bridge" to "Mt. St. Jo- 
seph's," is brightened by gardens of bloom, and throughout 
its length it is almost uninterruptedly parallelled by stalwart 
trees of refreshing vigor, a delight to look upon. 
It was James Logan, statesman and botanist, who had 
the first pretentious garden in Germantown, and it was he 
who in illness wrote, "For it is my greatest happiness in this 
condition, that with the advantages already mentioned, I am 
naturally, as by long habit, disposed, for which I am truly 
thankful, to account a solid, inward peace of mind and the 
enjoyment of myself by reducing my own thoughts to bear 
some proportion to the beautiful order conspicuous in all out- 
ward objects of the natural creation, to be the only basis of 
real felicity." 
Whether or not we agree with the first "Justice" of 
Pennsylvania is of little consequence. It is of more import- 
ance to remember that the first man known to history was 
placed to happily dwell in a garden, that after an interminal 
number of years, and nearly one hundred years before the 
home gardens of which we write were planted, the relations 
at the dawn established continued in perfect agreement, for 
