2017 Chester County Antiques Show by eric smith

april 7 8 9 th

letter from the presenting corporate sponsor

Dear Friends, On behalf of PECO, thank you for supporting the Chester County Historical Society (CCHS) and joining us for the 2017 Chester County Antiques Show. For the past 10 years, PECO has proudly supported CCHS as the presenting corporate sponsor of the Antiques Show, one of the largest exhibitions in Southeastern Pennsylvania. CCHS is widely recognized as one of the Commonwealth’s premier history museums and educational centers, as it plays an integral role in history education, cultural diversity and also provides a positive economic impact for the region. At PECO, we are powering our region today and reimagining the future of energy for tomorrow. Part of this effort is our investment in innovative arts and cultural programming, like that offered by CCHS, across the communities we serve. We remain deeply grateful for the efforts of those who contribute their time, energy and expertise to the Historical Society, including President Elizabeth Laurent and our very own Charles White, director of Utility Performance Assessment, who serves on the CCHS Board. We also applaud this year’s Antiques Show Chairs — Francis “Fran” B. Jacobs II and Chuck and June Piola — for their exceptional commitment to the success of the show and their dedication to CCHS. We hope you enjoy the wonderful selection of antique items and continue your support of the Chester County Historical Society throughout the year! Sincerely,

Craig L. Adams Executive Vice President, Exelon President and CEO, PECO

letter from the president

Dear Friends, Welcome to the 35th Annual Chester County Antiques Show, held in support of Chester County Historical Society (CCHS). As new CCHS President, I am excited to experience my first Chester County show! The event is the Society’s primary fundraiser, allowing us to share the allure of history by celebrating our connection to significant and beautiful objects of the past. We are deeply appreciative of PECO’s President and CEO Craig Adams’s leadership in being our Presenting Corporate Sponsor for the eleventh consecutive year. We are inspired by PECO’s generous, ongoing support of CCHS’s mission and are especially grateful to Romona Riscoe Benson (Director of Corporate Relations), and our wonderful CCHS Trustee, Charlie White (Exelon’s Director of Utility Project Management). For many months, members of our dedicated Antiques Show Committee have been working to create an unforgettable experience. We are grateful to this year’s Co-Chairs, Francis B. Jacobs II, and June and Charles B. Piola Jr., who have supplied leadership, encouragement and humor. We are thankful for the staff and many volunteers who make every aspect of the show run smoothly, allowing us all to enjoy moments of learning, camaraderie and beauty. We appreciate Show Manager Wesley Sessa and this year’s exhibitors, representing twelve states, who make the show possible. Show proceeds support CCHS’s many activities. We have entered the final design phase for the Society’s widelyanticipated, new multi-gallery exhibit Chester County: A Place in History. Our building has been filled with hundreds of middle and high school students from Delaware and Chester Counties along with teachers, parents, and volunteer judges, to compete in the 28th annual National History Day. We partnered with Longwood Gardens to present a lecture program “Legacy of Plant Exploration” linked to our current exhibition The Visionary World of Humphry Marshall 1750 – 1800 featuring the monumental paintings of Chester County painter Adrian Martinez. We are showcasing some of the Society’s notable textile collection with the exhibit Quilts, the Next Layer. Our museum and library staff have embraced technology with the Society’s first online placement of data and images of more than 30,000 historic documents, photographs and artifacts. There will never be a substitute for seeing original objects at CCHS, but the online project gives us a twenty-first century world-wide presence for folks who may never come to West Chester. One of many things that continue to impress and inspire me is the positive experience folks of all ages have when they come through the CCHS doors. Adults leave smiling about something they saw or experienced; groups of school children leave happily chattering about what they learned. The Society’s programs and events touch people’s lives and make our community a better place. Thank you for welcoming me into the CCHS community. Let’s enjoy the show! With sincere appreciation,

Elizabeth Laurent President

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Hoopes Bro & Thomas Company ...... 10-17

Individual and Corporate Supporters..... 4-5

Native American Seeds in the Chester

Antiques Show Committee.................... 6-7

County Tradition ............................. 18-25

Board of Trustees & With Gratitude......... 8

USER GUIDES

CCHS General Information.................... 9

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the United States. In addition to multiple

for the early nursery show that Hoopes sold

vegetable

plants,

grapevines,

greenhouses, the grounds had a storage cellar

fruit

for bulbs and roots and a large packing house.

and ornamental trees as well as flowering

An 1870 account of a visit by Mr. J. W. Wood

plants such as roses, verbenas, and dahlias.

of Washington Heights, NY, was published

He was also willing to arrange bouquets of

in Gardener’s Monthly and provides a good

flowers “furnished at the shortest notice.” In

overview of the nursery’s appearance. Mr.

1857 Hoopes’s only brother, Abner, joined

Wood described seeing upon entering the gate

the business and the firm became known as

“a large specimen bed of Rhododendrons in

Hoopes & Bro. With the addition of George

full bloom.” In front of the propagating houses

Brinton Thomas in 1866 as an “office partner,”

were a series of circular beds, containing castor

the firm became Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas.

oil plant, varieties of cannas, beefsteak plant,

The nursery’s size varied over the years, as land

periwinkle, and Lobelia. Another bed was

was bought or leased. By 1875, it was 300 acres.

filled with scarlet geraniums. Other plants he

When the nursery purchased 335 acres in

noted included varieties of Weigela, Forsythia,

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Spiraea, Columbine, Iris, Clematis, Magnolia,

and agents. These sales agents worked in

and a “plant which I have not seen for thirty

different parts of the country, traveling to

years,” Salvia pratensis [meadow clary]. The

sell stock and to solicit orders. Some agents

grounds also featured “row after row of fine

would come to the nursery to supervise the

young stock of evergreens,” “two or three

packing and filling of their customers’ orders.

varieties of Copper Beech,” and “one of the

Vast quantities of stock were sent out in this

finest trees of the white Spruce I have ever seen.”

fashion. By 1891, the nursery had seventy-

The nursery grounds were open to the public

five traveling salesmen working in fourteen

and were a popular destination for a local walk.

states, including those as far west and north as Minnesota and as far south as Alabama.

As a large nursery, Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas

There was also an agent who sold plants to

was an active employer. In 1891, there were

clients in Mexico, using a nursery catalog

about 300 employees. Most of the work was

printed in Spanish. Plants to fill his orders

seasonal. In the spring large numbers of men

took three months to arrive from West Chester.

would arrive and then leave after the spring work was completed. The work force was also

The stock sold by Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas

reduced at the beginning of winter. Jobs fell

came from many different sources. The

into many categories. There were propagators

nursery grew much of its own stock from

who grafted and budded trees, packers who

seeds or cuttings. They had a well-tended

worked filling orders, foremen, apprentices,

scion orchard to supply them with material

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It was one of the

l argest horticultural

nurseries in the United States. trees; from Wayne County, Pennsylvania 25,000 hemlock and 10,000 maples; and from Skaneateles, New York 25,000 arborvitae, 10,000 balsam fir and 5,000 white pine. They also traded extensively with European

for budding and grafting. Even so, no large

nurseries. While the West Chester firm was

nursery could be totally self-sufficient and

sending native American plants to England

Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas frequently relied on

and Germany, they, in turn, imported a large

stock from other growers. They were supplied

number of fruit tree stocks and ornamental

by nurseries in all parts of the United States.

plants from firms in France, England, and

In 1866 they ordered 1,800 raspberries

Germany. Orders were placed several times a

for propagating from a Rev. John Knox of

year with the firm of P. & E. Transon in Orleans,

Pittsburgh. That same year they ordered from

France for fruit tree stocks. An order from

Newburgh, New York enough scions of Ben

December 1866 requested 75,000 Mahaleb

Davis and Pryors apples to graft 500-1,000

cherry stocks and 5,000 pear stocks. They

Illustrations from folding books used by Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas sales representatives.

continued to trade with the firm, as an order for

Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas felt obligated to lodge

150,000 Mahaleb and 5,000 white birch trees

a complaint in 1868 regarding the condition of

in 1876 shows. Evidently, shipments received

their order from the British firm Stewart & Son:

from Transon Bros. arrived in fine shape after crossing the ocean: “Our French trees came in such splendid condition (as they always do), not a leaf dropped, not a plant moldy.” That was not always the case with other nurseries.

“Eight cases have arrived. …The larger portion are completely ruined, in fact rotted down in a mass. We have thrown the contents of some cases in the waste heap. All the boxes are more or less completely saturated with water excepting one. We firmly believe our goods to have been placed on the deck of

Open to the public and a popular destination

for a local walk.

the steamer, exposed to all the vicissitudes of the weather….” (editor’s note: This must not have been typical, as the firm is still in operation today as Stewarts Garden Centres.) In

general,

foreign

nurseries

supplied

Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas with cherry stocks (France), seeds (Germany), and specimen ornamental plants (Great Britain) that were not as easily obtained in the United States.

Another source of nursery material was through “amateur” collectors. These plant hunters appear to have been indispensable for filling the nursery’s orders for the wild lilies, ferns, orchids and insectivorous plants that were in demand by European nurseries. That the plants did not always arrive in the best condition can be surmised from an 1875 letter to a South Carolina man who had shipped carnivorous plants to the nursery: “We do not wish and do not think you ought to be the loser in the Sarracenias [trumpet pitchers] sent us, neither do we think we should suffer by paying for plants that are wholly

worthless

through

bad

packing….”

The collector was urged to try again and was

given

packing

instructions

technique

the

proper

layering

plants

with damp moss in a paper-lined box. Greenhouses were used to house tender plants such as canna and dahlias, as well as some specimen plants. Cuttings of evergreens, roses, and other greenhouse plants were rooted in benches that were filled with a special soil mixture. Once rooted, these cuttings were

from

transferred to small clay pots. The nursery

planted thickly in a bed and protected by

utilized large numbers of pots; an 1867 order

raised scaffolding covered with evergreen

to a Baltimore firm requested 18,000 pots,

branches about three feet above the bed.

of which 12,000 were 2" in diameter. Many

Rose cuttings, however, were grown in

plants were grown outside the greenhouses

hotbeds. To grow all these plants the nursery

in beds and cold frames. Beds were used

required large amounts of manure, so much

to raise young seedling evergreens such as

so that they had to ship it in by rail. The

hemlock spruce and American yew taken

manure was spread on fields and composted

the

woods.

The

seedlings

were

Left: Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas office building, 1900. Above: This detail from the Atlas of Chester Co. Pennsylvania (A. R. Witmer, 1874) shows the company’s location in the northeast corner of West Chester. It is identified by its original name, “Cherry Hill Nurseries.” To avoid confusion, the company later used the name “Maple Avenue Nurseries.”

with sods and soil to form “potting compost” or

also corresponded regularly with botanists in

plowed under to support apple and rose stock.

the Midwest and abroad. By the time The Book

The nursery tested a wide range of plants for hardiness and pest resistance, noting what type of soil was needed and how varieties responded to extreme temperatures. The results of the nursery’s testing of evergreens contributed to Josiah Hoopes’s major

work,

The

Book

Evergreens;

a Practical Treatise on the Coniferae, or ConeBearing Plants, which he published in 1868.

of Evergreens was published, Hoopes had been in the nursery business for fifteen years. It was this combination of the scientific with the practical that helped make the book a success. It was the first of its kind to be written by an American about conifers growing under American conditions. Every conifer that

would

survive

the

Mid-Atlantic

was listed by its scientific and common name. The text for each entry included

Hoopes had a lifelong interest in conifers,

information on the conifer’s suitability as

and credited local botanists Joshua Hoopes,

an ornamental, frequently augmented with

his cousin, and Dr. William Darlington with

Hoopes’s personal observations regarding

acquainting him with this group of plants. He

the tree’s success or failure at his nursery.

Much of the credit for the nursery’s success belongs to its founder,

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Josiah Hoopes.

After the death of Josiah Hoopes in 1904, the nursery continued until 1948, first under the direction of his brother Abner until 1920, and then under Abner’s son, Wilmer Worthington

Hoopes.

Under

Abner,

the

area served by the nursery shrank, and their trade became primarily confined to within a one-hundred-mile range of Philadelphia. The company then lost nearly one quarter of its land in 1934, when 78 acres were condemned to

build

reservoir

for

East

Goshen.

For most of its years of operation, the size and scope of the nursery place it in the first order of Pennsylvania nurseries of the late 1800s. Much of the credit for the nursery’s success belongs to its founder, Josiah Hoopes. More than a mere propagator of trees, Josiah Hoopes’s ability to look at growing plants with

Left: In this 1900 photograph, employees of Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas are preparing trees for shipping. Above: Illustration from folding books used by Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas sales representatives.

a scientific and critical eye placed him in the

Below: Kelly O’Keefe Photography

front ranks of Pennsylvania horticulturalists.

All Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas illustrations are of items in the Chester County Historical Society collections.

Diane P. Rofini (1955-2016) was the librarian at Chester County Historical Society from 1997-2016. Earlier in her career she worked at CCHS as a project archivist and manuscripts cataloger. Diane was particularly interested in the history of botany and horticulture. In 2000 she curated the CCHS exhibit “Animal, Vegetable & Mineral: The World of Chester County Naturalists.” This article was adapted from her 1986 M.A. thesis “The Role of Hoopes, Bro. & Thomas Nursery of West Chester, Pennsylvania in American Horticulture (1853-1920),” at West Chester University, by her sister, Laurie A. Rofini, who is the Director of Chester County Archives and Records Services. The complete thesis is available to researchers at the CCHS Library.

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IN THE

CHESTER COUNTY TRADITION William Woys Weaver, PhD

Early American squash from our region including Mt. Yummy, Unami, and Lenape White Warted

Figure 1

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NATIVE AMERICAN SEEDS IN THE CHESTER COUNTY TRADITION

It may come as a surprise to many local horticulturists that Chester County is home to one of the largest collections of Native American

and colonial seeds in Pennsylvania. Begun in West Chester in 1932, my grandfather H. Ralph Weaver assembled a wide range of regional heirloom seeds from relatives and friends. After his death, I continued to build the collection so that today it represents about 4,500 rare

heirloom food plants. Many of these varieties are unique to the collection which now functions as a non-profit seed archive housed at the historic Lamb Tavern in Easttown Township. For more on the archive please refer to our website at www.roughwoodseeds.org.

The energy or synergy that brought

plant observations are in some

acquired from the Webb family in

it all together traces directly to

ways as timely today as they were

Northbrook who owned the farm

Chester County’s Quaker roots

when he first published them.

on which Hannah lived for many

and a long-standing Quaker

Furthermore, let us not forget

years, jolted me into the realization

commitment to stewardship of

Hugh E. Stone’s 1945 Flora of

that there was probably a lot more

the environment. I need only

Chester County which attempted

“out there” to be discovered. I was

mention Humphry Marshall, who

to bring our local botanical profile

not disappointed.

is being honored in an exhibition

up to date.

currently on view at Chester County Historical Society, but also his biographer Dr. William Darlington, whose 1837 Flora

Cestrica I inherited from his niece (my great-great grandmother) Susan Darlington Hannum. This is one of the most treasured books in my garden library and, remarkable as it may seem, Dr. Darlington’s

The late Sarah Kaulback, whose

Unfortunately none of the

family owned the White Horse

published botanical literature

Tavern in Great Valley, not only

took into account what Chester

provided me with the original 1820s

Countians were actually

tavern cookbooks, but the actual

growing or the vast list of early

beans the family used on their

Pennsylvania heirloom vegetables

tavern menus. This included the

that have been quietly preserved

White Horse Tavern Bean (probably

by families all across the

known by many different local

county. My grandfather’s Indian

names in the 1800s), Walker’s Great

Hannah Bean (Figure 2), which he

Valley Long Pod (from the Quaker

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Figure 2

Figure 3

Figure 4

Figure 5

Figure 6

Figure 7

Walker family of Valley Forge; Figure 3 ), Beaumontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

anything connected with William Penn. Aside from

Gray Snap Bean (grown by Thomas Jefferson;

its association with Pennâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s treaty with the Indians

Figure 4), and the Octarora Cornfield Bean preserved

(hence the name Shackamaxon where the treaty

from the 1820s by members of Sadsbury Friends

took place), the colorful dried bean pods were

Meeting. Quakers have also been involved in the

used by the Lenape to make red and blue dyes.

preservation of two other rare local bean varieties.

A fuller story of this bean is outlined in my book

Heirloom Vegetable Gardening.

Back in the 1970s the late Mary Larkin Thomas gave me seeds for the Blue Shackamaxon pole bean

Another rare pole bean whose pods were also used

which she had been growing for many years on a

for dying is Purple Kingsessing, which is perhaps the

garden plot near the former High Street School

oldest documented bean in the Roughwood Seed

in West Chester. Her mother, Rebecca Hallowell

Archive (Figure 5). Also known as Lenape Bread Bean

Thomas of New Garden, had visited the site of

(it was ground for flour), the bean traces back to a

Pennsbury Manor in 1906 and acquired the seed

Swedish settlement at Kingsessing in what is now

from Mahlon Moon, a local Bucks County Quaker

southwest Philadelphia. The bean appears to have

interested in horticulture and history, especially

followed the movement of Swedes and Lenape into

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NATIVE AMERICAN SEEDS IN THE CHESTER COUNTY TRADITION

Figure 8

Chester and Berks Counties, then on to western

Among the Delaware of Oklahoma we have

Pennsylvania. It was found among the Cornplanter

collected Sehsapsing (black flint corn for hominy

Senecas of Warren County by well-known Indian

and grits), Puhwem (flour corn), Psindamocin Corn

activist Theodore Brinton Hetzel (1906-1990) who

(blue sweet corn for parching), Mother Corn

passed it on to me in 1981.

(a speckled sweet corn; Figure 5), Masked Dance (a violet sweet corn; Figure 5), Royal Minquas (a violet

All of these heirloom beans match up with known

flour corn), and from the Iroquois, Tooth Corn

varieties of Delaware Indian horticulture or with

(Figure 6), which was the most popular flour

Seneca varieties documented by anthropologists

corn planted in southeastern Pennsylvania

in the early 1900s. Both Nations shared seeds so it

during the period 1760s-1860s. Locals called

is not easy to presuppose who gave what to whom.

it Gourd Seed Corn.

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NATIVE AMERICAN SEEDS IN THE CHESTER COUNTY TRADITION

While there is some documentary

grown in our region, including

patrimony inherited from the

material on the ancient corns,

the beautiful Nanticoke Pumpkin

native peoples who once lived

little has been written in historical

(Figure 8) and the black-green

here – and how quickly the Lenape

records about squash. This remains

Appoquinnamink Squash.

shifted from hunter gatherers to

one of the most tenuous areas of historical research because colonists for the most part did not like the many varieties of squash grown by Native Americans. The end result is that only those few that appealed to European sensibilities made it across the cultural divide. Some of the best Native Squash for seed oil, for winter drying, or just for utensils were lost for this reason. This dilemma was solved quite accidentally when a Nanticoke woman from Maryland handed me seeds for “maycocks” during a lecture in Salem County, New Jersey (Figure 7). She had come over the bay from Lewes, Delaware and wanted to share seeds from her Native American community living in the isolated swamps on the Delaware-Maryland border. As it later developed, her “maycocks” (an Indian term for summer squash) proved to be a payload of genetic diversity and from that original

We know the approximate age of these squash because of an experiment undertaken in 1769-1772 by French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne. Duchesne grew a large collection of East Coast squash in Paris and recorded them in beautiful watercolors which have recently been published by the French National Museum of Natural History. Thus we have dated pictures to match up with the squash we have been growing.

agriculturists after contact with Europeans – the irony of this is the Lenape are long since gone. Even their language is dying out and their heirloom food plants have been cared for by surrogate stewards. With the rise of farm-to-table cuisine perhaps there is now no better way to honor this heritage than to bring these delightful local foods up to commercial scale and give them a place of honor on menus celebrating our distinct regional cuisine.

While it will take more than 10

The Roughwood Seed Archive is a 501c3

years to isolate and stabilize

non-profit

these ancient squash varieties,

rare

we feel that the effort is worthwhile because nowhere

and

comprising endangered

some

4,500

heirloom

food

plants. Begun in 1932 it is the oldest private seed collection in Pennsylvania and a major contributor to seed collections

else in the United States do we

throughout the United States and abroad.

have such genetic diversity in

It is the only collection of its kind to treat

aboriginal squash or, for that

seeds as cultural artifacts. The collection’s

matter, so many squash that offer such a large range of culinary possibilities.

seed the Roughwood Seed Archive

While it seems truly amazing

has been able to isolate about 15

that Chester County has been

varieties of pre-1770s squash once

blessed with a rich horticultural

steward, Dr. William Woys Weaver, is an internationally known food historian who received his PhD in food ethnography from University College, Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of seventeen books and the winner of many publishing awards.

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Raise the Roof

Revolution at Home

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Step inside the world of Lutheran minister Henry Muhlenberg in this special exhibition at his beautifully restored home in Trappe, Pennsylvania.

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Join us for an evening of live music, delicious food, and a silent auction featuring unique works of art made by local craftspeople.

Highlights include splendid examples of Pennsylvania German and Philadelphia furniture on loan from Muhlenberg descendants and local institutions, including the Chester County Historical Society.

All proceeds beneﬁt the restoration of the Frederick Muhlenberg House, built in 1763.

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