| Show FINE OLD GARDEN TO BE RESTORED Good News for Lovers of Horticulture The oldest botanical garden Inthe in inthe inthe the United States is located within the limits of the city of Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadel Philadel- phia and is one of the shrines of the minded tourist The two two hundredth hundredth anniversary of the foun founding in of this old garden was celebrated on June 5 j and amI G 6 of this year with ceremonies suited to the occasion The opening day was spent In special exercises of a historical historical historical his his- nature and on the second day the visitors were guests at the garden garden gar gar- den tea being served in the old home of the founder John Bartram a section of which was built bunt In 1700 by Swedish settlers and became the foundation from which Mr Bartram Bertram built later The bun building ding was purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased by Mr Bartram Bertram In 1728 1723 and the original house still remains inthe In Inthe Inthe the garden enclosure The Bartram garden Is now nosy undergoing undergoing under under- going a process of restoration that will bring It back to its original form a fitting tribute to the plat of land that has been devoted to garden garden gar gar- den purposes for two hundred years ears The house has been restored to its original form and now the garden through the efforts of the garden clubs of Philadelphia and surrounding surround surround- ing country will be made to resemble resemble ble be as nearly as possible the garden I of the Ule old da days s These clubs have undertaken as their first work to restore to the garden the native rhododendrons mountain laurel and other evergreens John Bartram was a native nath-e AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican his birthplace being Darby Pa near Philadelphia lie li lived ed to the good old od age of seventy-eight seventy and died In Bartram house in 1777 The garden Is located on the west bank of the Schuylkill river and for many years ears It was a most isolated isolated iso iso- sP spot lt It was through his voluminous voluminous volu volu- minous correspondence with Peter Collinson a n grower In London Eng Eng- land land and and the exchange of or many seeds seed and plants that Mr Ir Bartram's trams work became well weB known Another famous botanical garden which ranks as the finest In is the world Is at Java this garden in its present state of perfection per being the product of nearly nearl a century of effort on th part of the Dutch Inhabitants of Java So wonderful are the flowers and plants that the garden which Includes 00 90 acres Is known as The liThe Garden of the East L L. L C. C Breed in the Gardeners Gardeners Gardener's Gardeners Gardener's Gar Gar- dener's Chronicle tells us of the vegetation vegetation in this garden of wonders The governor generals house which is located In the garden Jarden Is approached approached ap ape ap- ap we are Informed through the finest avenue fi of trees In the world These are trees reaching reaching reach reach- ing feet overhead and have tall taU straight trunks covered with stag stag- horn ferns ferns orchids and every type of parasite and air plant that the climate will permit Mr Breed also describes a palm that stands about 40 feet high and anda a wilderness of climbing plants among which are palms with branches COO feet In length He makes note of another palm that bears the largest fruit and the largest leaves of any known tree the fruit being two feet in diameter and the leaves 10 feet Some of the trees rise to a height of feet before the branches spread |
