RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



cent specimen said to have been ma- 

 ture in the days of James Logan and 

 William Penn. 



Near-by and north of Stenton is 

 "The Cedars," a green grove wherein 

 Professor Stewardson Brown long 

 dwelt, and where this gentleman in- 

 formed me is a fine specimen of 

 swamp magnolia (magnolia glauca), 

 two rare j'ellow-flowering magnolias 

 (magnolia fraseri), a lemon-scented 

 variety of great beauty, by many con- 

 sidered our finest magnolia, and a 

 small tree of the always rare cedar of 

 Lebanon. Here also are several fine 

 specimens of swamp cypress (taxo- 

 dium distichium), familiarly known 

 about Philadelphia as Bartram's cy- 

 press. 



Without exception, the finest grove 

 of trees in Germantown is that in the 

 midst of which "Wakefield," a near 

 neighbor of Stenton and Fairfield, is 

 situated — a grove composed of im- 

 mense juniper (juniperus virginiana), 

 chestnut (castanea Americana), 

 white oak (quercus alba), red oak 

 (quercus rubra), and tulip poplar (lir- 

 iodendron tulipifera) trees. Here is 

 a green-flowering cucumber tree 

 (magnolia acuminata), perfectly pro- 



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