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Ridley Creek. It is thus protected by hills on the north, west 

 and south. A piece of old, native timber protects it on the 

 east. There is ample variety of high and low, wet and dry. 

 A spring pours out cold water in the midst of the garden, and 

 a slow rivulet crosses the area. The luxuriant growth of a 

 great variety of plants attests the excellence of the location. 

 One may well ask how these men who never travelled 

 obtained so many hardy plants. It was largely through 

 exchange with other botanists — with John Evans, whose 

 arboretum still remains at Radnor — though not nearly so 

 rich as Painter's — with Bartram's Gardens — with the second 

 Humphrey Marshall, of Marshallton, some of whose trees 

 also remain — with Meehan of Germantown — with the Hoopes 

 brothers of West Chester — and with Prof. Hooker, of Kew 

 Gardens, England, to whom many American specimens were 

 sent. 



partial list of plants in and about 

 painters' arboretum in 1898. 



Abies balsamea 



Acer campestre 

 negundo 



platanoides laciniatum 

 rubrum 

 saccharinum 

 saccharum 



Large tree, with broadly winged bark. 



Aesculus glabra 



Amelanchier canadensis 



Aristolochia clematitis 



Introduced at the Arboretum, but now found only beside the 

 Middletown Road, about one mile away. 



Arundinaria tecta ? 



