RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



only local competitor for age with the 

 possible exceptions of Rock-House, 

 and Naglee's Houses, is the "Fraley 

 House, clearly of later construction, 

 which stands in what was once 

 Dr. Christopher Witt's garden, 

 later Miss Elizabeth C. Morris' 

 garden, situated at the southeast cor- 

 ner of Main and High streets, a build- 

 ing which may be seen to the rear of 

 Mrs. Farnum's charming latticed res- 

 idence. 



Local history, to me at least, is al- 

 way alluring, and it is with difficulty 

 that I hew to the proper line, the temp- 

 tation being to venture a lit- 

 tle more. But we shall leave Dr. Witt 

 and these pleasant shades to follow 

 in the footsteps of others perhaps less 

 well known. 



By an unwritten law, observed from 

 the days of Godfried Lehman to those 

 of Charles F. Jenkins, our latest 

 guide, Germantown has been ap- 

 proached from the south by way of 

 Main street, and a custom so honored 

 I hope not to be the first to disturb. 

 Many of us, indeed most of us, I think, 

 are able to recall Germantown village 

 of 21^ miles or more, when the large 

 buttonwood tree (platanus occiden- 



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