RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



Of tlie planting of the people he 

 wrote: 



"They raise a good deal of wheat, 

 and still more Indian corn, but very- 

 little rye or oats." 



Rev. John C. Ogden, who visited 

 here in the same year, describes the 

 village in much the same way, and 

 noted, "the road is muddy and dusty 

 when rains or droughts prevail. The 

 houses in Germantown are very uni- 

 versally shaded with weeping willows, 

 the Lombardy poplar, and other orna- 

 mental trees. The gardens are under 

 excellent cultivation, with valuable 

 fields in their rear." 



Several visitors of importance we 

 shall pass, for tbe purpose is merely 

 to expose the line of continuity to 

 enable us to form a better idea of 

 the floral life of old Germantown, and 

 with a recollection of Edward H. 

 Bonsall, who, as Rev. S. F. Hotchkin re- 

 ports, lived here from 1819 to 1835, we 

 will turn aside into another path. Ev- 

 idently the last-named was a poor ob- 

 server, for he said, "in a circle of six 

 miles with Chew's house as a centre 

 outside of Main street, there would 

 not have been found 5 houses superior 

 to an ordinary farm house," a state- 

 so 



