GBRMANTOWN 

 RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



N the presentation and 

 consideration of our 

 home plants of special 

 interest, it should be 

 kept in mind that near- 

 ly all, if not quite all, 

 were transplanted to the positions 

 they now occupy, and that there is 

 here no disposition to compare or con- 

 trast with other plants of greater age, 

 of more historic worth, our rare and 

 notable plants of "nature" and culti- 

 vation. 



Our purpose is rather to show that, 

 with our town's increase in girth and 

 years, we have had a like advance in 

 intelligence and culture, and that our 

 old mansions, gardens and those who 

 keep them have earned for German- 

 town the title, — "the most beautiful 

 suburb in America." 



We have no yew trees 3000 years 

 old, no oak trees of 2000 years' 

 growth, no "Burnham beeches," nor 

 have we other plants of great age 

 equal to those of older countries and 

 especially England, but such as we 

 have we shall in outline endeavor to 

 present, and direct attention to the 

 fact that they have merited and re- 



