Identifier: germantowngarden00jell (find matches)
Title: Germantown Gardens and Gardeners
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Jellett, Edwin C. (Edwin Costley), 1860-1929.
Subjects: Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Germantown (Philadelphia). Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Biography.
Publisher: Philadelphia: Horace F. McCann
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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during its formative period, as wehave seen, homes were few and far between, and allknown gardens were given to the growing of kitchen andmedicinal plants. But as the settlement progressed, roof-covered cellars gave way to houses of logs, so these in turngave way to others of wood and stone. From 1683 to 1707were erected the stone houses of Thones Kunder, JacobTelner, Isaac Dilbeck, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Jan Doeden,Jacob Schumacker, and other like, but doubtless the mostpretentious house of the early settlement, was that of HansMilan, built in 1690, and later incorporated in Wyck. Fair-Hill, east of the German tract, but frequentlyreferred to in connection with it, was built in 1716. Follow-ing this from the year 1727 to 1738, appeared the forerunners of the representative type,—Stenton, Billmeyeror Widow Deshler and Dirck Keyser Houses, and thesewith their grounds, mark the highest garden development ofthe first period. They also set the pace for the expansiveperiod to follow.
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