RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



troduced to England, one of tlie first 

 specimens in that country being plant- 

 ed at Hampton Court. 



Advancing northward by way of 

 York road, we note on the grounds of 

 J. Bertram Lippincott a fine white 

 oak (quercus alba) with a trunk four 

 feet in diameter and rising to a height 

 of 80 feet. Here also is a specially 

 fine white pine (pinus strobus), but 

 there is hardly a place of importance 

 in or near Germantown where there 

 are not conspicuous, if not great, 

 white pine trees. It is a characteris- 

 tic of a white pine that it dominates 

 wherever it is, and a plant which at 

 a distance appears to be of great pro- 

 portions, near is found to be disap- 

 pointingly ordinary. 



From "Solitude," located east of 

 York road, south of Fisher's lane, the 

 best plants have disappeared. There 

 yet, however, is a catalpa (catalpa 

 bignonioides), having a trunk three 

 ■feet in diameter and a height of forty 

 feet; a chestnut (castanea vesca), 

 with a trunk of five feet in diameter 

 and a height of 70 feet; a tulip poplar 

 (liriodendron tulipifera), 4 feet in di- 

 ameter and 100 feet in height; and a 

 finely proportioned walnut (juglans 



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