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[[File:Joseph Meehan.jpg|thumb|left|Joseph Meehan (1840-1920), younger brother of Thomas Meehan.]]
Meehan and family supplied plants to the United States and Europe for seven decades, expanding to cover 60 hectares in the twentieth century. Their specialty was ornamentals, such as [[Japanese maple]]s. In 1888, Thomas Meehan rediscovered the Pink Dogwood ''[[Cornus florida]]'' var. ''rubra'', which was thought to be extinct, along the banks of the [[Wissahickon Creek]], which is now part of [[Philadelphia]] municipal park system. Meehan's researches in botany led to his being the editor of ''The Gardener’s Monthly'' (
Meehan wrote his own agriculture columns for five newspapers and authored 'The Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States', consisting of four volumes describing and illustrating, in colour, over 300 species. Meehan was a member of the [[Historical Society of Pennsylvania]], the American Association of Nurserymen, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/home/index.html|title=Welcome to The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society|date=October 26, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026103955/http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/home/index.html|archive-date=2007-10-26}}</ref> the [[American Pomological Society]], the [[Academy of Natural Sciences]], the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]] and the [[American Philosophical Society]]. He was also an honorary member of the [[Royal Horticultural Society]] (London). He corresponded with foremost botanists [[William Darlington]], Josiah Hoopes,<ref>http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=46622</ref> [[William Saunders (botanist)|William Saunders]], [[George Engelmann]], [[John Torrey]], [[Asa Gray]], [[Maxwell T. Masters]], [[Ferdinand von Mueller]], [[George Nicholson (horticulturalist)|George Nicholson]] and [[Charles Darwin]].
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