Excerpt from Germantown Gardens and Gardeners Garden is an open place reserved for plants, and a gardener is a person who helps a plant to grow. Upon this broad interpretation we set out. Before venturing to cross an unsurveyed country, it will be well for a traveller to fix the view points, for otherwise he may wander far astray. We, in essaying a rapid journey through trackless fields, may not linger, but must onward press, keeping in sight the land-mark upon the objective hill. For direction and distinctness we have divided Our subject into three parts; the Formative period extending from 1683 to i740, -during which German Towne was founded, when it became a village with its houses and business confined to a Pike, its interests being largely agricultural - the period Of development, extending from 1740 to 18 54, - during which the village expanded to the measure of a town, wherein farms gave way to estates, when pretentious gardens were prepared, and professional gardeners appeared; - and the modern period, extending from the year 18 54 to the year 191 I, - during which marked changes were made, elaborate gardens ourished, and wherein Germantown became an integral part Of the great city Of Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."