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in America, and the garden has also been restored under the direction of Letitia E. Wright, who followed as nearly as possible the lines of the old time garden. Of course, it is much smaller in extent than the original, but beautifully preserves the colonial simplicity of outline and planting. 

[[underlined]] Grumblethorpe, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa [[/underlined]]. (1744)

[[underlined]] 57 [[/underlined]]. Grumblethorpe, built in 1744, now in the midst of the business section of Germantown, was the first house to be built by a Wister, that name so well known in Philadelphia and Germantown, and is still in the hands of the Wister family. The garden laid out soon afterward, has been maintained through the years. 

[[underlined]] 58 [[/underlined]]. It covers an area of 188 feet by 450 feet, having a central walk, box-bordered, and favorable points arched by arbors. On the site of an old ice-house, the first in Germantown, grows an arbored tree wistaria of immense proportions, completely covering its supporting structure. Here in this old garden, so near the noise and confusion of the great city, bright blossoms touch each other and grow as peacefully as in the time of Washington.

[[underlined]] Tockington [[/underlined]]   1740

The land on which Tockington is situated is also an original grant from William Penn, and the house was built as early as 1689 by John Worral who named it "Tockington" from his wife's ancestral village in Wales.