RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



nigra), 3 feet in diameter and 80 feet 

 high. 



These trees are surpassed by oth- 

 ers elsewhere, the walnut in par- 

 ticular being excelled by like trees on 

 Morton street near High street, on 

 Main street above Tulpehocken street, 

 at Nutwold on East Johnson street, — 

 all superior plants, and by a wide 

 branching tree of the same species 

 overspreading a spring-house on the 

 grounds of Frank Smyth, Washington 

 lane, east of Chew street, a specimen 

 6 feet in diameter and 90 feet high, I 

 think by all odds the finest in Ger- 

 mantown. 



On Fisher's lane east of York road 

 is an exceedingly fine white poplar 

 (populus alba), having a trunk 48 

 inches in diameter and a height of 80 

 feet; and farther east on the same 

 lane, with its lands bordering those of 

 "York Farm," — the last American 

 home of Fanny Kemble, — is Cham- 

 plost, a beautiful estate occupied by 

 Miss Fox, where grow some of our 

 • finest plants, — but it being situated be- 

 yond our proper limits, we shall with 

 this mention pass it, to stop at a 

 worthy neighbor. 



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