Colonial Garden At Stenton Described In Old Letters

Author : Mrs. William Redwood Wright
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666944368
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Garden at Stenton written by Mrs. William Redwood Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Colonial Garden at Stenton: Described in Old Letters This paper was read at a meeting of the Garden Club of Philadelphia, October lgth, 1911; at a meeting of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America, May 16th, 1912; and at the first meeting of the Garden Club of America, May 1811, 1913. All these meetings were held at Stenton. It was also read at Vernon Hall at a meeting of the Site and Relic Society of Germantown on January 16th, 1914; at the Acorn Club at a meeting of the School of Horticulture for Women, March 3rd, 1914; and at the Unitarian Church Building at a meeting of the Longfellow Guild, November 13th, 1914. The letters from which these extracts have been taken, were written in Colonial days and they have been in the possession of the family ever since. They were brought to light in 1911 when every effort was being made to obtain data for the restoration of the Stenton Garden. No exertion has been spared to make its planting historically correct, for nothing has been put into the garden unless there was a record of its having been there in colonial times. There are only a few shrubs of later date, probably planted by Deborah Logan, which have been allowed to remain, owing to their beauty and the fact that they were already established when the Dames obtained possession of the Mansion and grounds. In the park stands the memorial recently erected to old Dinah, the faithful servant who saved Stenton from the British torch through her quick wit and loyalty. 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.