RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



"2 M. to R. S., 4 M. to P."— surround- 

 ed by high trees and ivy-covered, is 

 its secluded mansion, which one ap- 

 proaches by box (buxus sempervi- 

 rens) bordered walks, winding be- 

 tween borders of heavy shrubbery, 

 and about are several conspicuous 

 hemlock (tsuga canadensis), beech 

 (fagus ferruginea), and button-ball 

 vplantanus occidentalis) trees. 



Near the upper entrance gate is a 

 white pine, and beside the house a 

 Norway spruce (picea excelsa), both 

 of strange development, and as odd as 

 any of the grotesque growths I have 

 seen at Wildwood, N. J., and else- 

 where on the Atlantic coast. 



Here also is a curious Austrian pine 

 (pinus Austriaca), with a depressed 

 crown; an unusually fine specimen of 

 Himalayan pine (pinus excelsa), 50 

 feet in height, second only to pines of 

 the same species at William Rotch 

 Wister's, Wisteria avenue; at Justus 

 Strawbridge's, School House lane and 

 Wissahickon avenue, and at Caspar 

 Heft's, Main street, near Manheim 

 street, the latter a specimen which 

 George Redles considers the best in 

 our territory. 



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