02856cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000130011910000510013224500270018326400510021030000470026133600260030833700260033433800360036050000310039650801560042752016200058353400760220365300610227965300430234085600730238385600430245699900190249978370UtSlPG20260610134822.0mcr n260607r20261904utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a04033609  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aF106aQK1 aJellett, Edwin C.q(Edwin Costley),d1860-192910aGermantown old and new 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-04-06  aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"Germantown old and new" by Edwin C. Jellett is a historical and horticultural account written in the early 20th century. It documents the rare and notable plants of Germantown, Pennsylvania, interweaving botany with local history, notable estates, and the people who cultivated them. Framed as a guided tour, it highlights specimen trees, gardens, and horticultural achievements that helped shape the suburb’s identity.

The opening of the work explains that it began as a hurried talk for the Germantown Horticultural Society, followed by a list of illustrations and a clear purpose: to honor transplanted “rare and notable” plants and the culture that nurtured them. Jellett establishes Germantown’s reputation with travelers’ praise, then sketches the town’s founding, street plan, and evolution from a weavers’ village to landscaped estates. He contrasts observers’ accounts and quickly turns to a south-to-north tour, naming properties and specimens with Latin names and exact measurements—oaks, tulip poplars, hemlocks, pines, willows, buttonwoods, maples, magnolias, cryptomeria, and more. Along the way he threads in anecdotes of prominent residents and visitors (from Pastorius and William Penn to Franklin, Washington, and Fanny Kemble), notes introductions of plants and garden fashions, and ties trees to historic houses like Stenton, Wakefield, Fernhill, Grumblethorpe, Upsala, and Cliveden. The section balances celebration with realism, mentioning losses to time and weather while underscoring Germantown’s living botanical heritage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cGermantown: Germantown Independent-Gazette, 1904  aGermantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Description and travel  aPlants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia4 uhttps://archive.org/details/germantownoldnew00jell/page/n13/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78370  c119090d119090