RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



As I follow our "avenues" pleasing 

 course, I am further reminded of old 

 Edinburgh's hallowed hill, and as I 

 picture its steep ascent, its numer- 

 ous historic buildings, its atmosphere 

 of antiquity, I see Sir Walter Scott 

 from his carriage strenuously dis- 

 coursing upon its wealth of interests 

 to the delight of his guests and his 

 own apparent satisfaction, for to him 

 Edinburgh was home, and to so enter- 

 tain his friends was "very heaven," 

 and as I look into the future, I see our 

 own "cannongate" of not one whit 

 less historic value, by one as illustri- 

 ous, made as widely, and as perma- 

 nently known. 



In olden time it was the custom 

 to approach Germantown only by the 

 "Great Road," for indeed for a period 

 there was no other way. The origi- 

 nal survey map of Germantown, dated 

 October 24, 1683, now in the posses- 

 sion of Governor Samuel W. Penny- 

 packer, is void of side roads or lanes, 

 but this defect immediately after the 

 settlement was remedied, maps fol- 

 lowing showing lanes to mills, and 

 later maps showing other roads con- 

 necting Germantown with important 

 near-by pikes east and west. After 



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