RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



rock" which supports this tree is also 

 associated with "Widow Seymour," 

 and those of a poetic temperament 

 may here find much of interest. Ad- 

 vancing to the elevation at Stenton 

 avenue and Fisher's lane, we find be- 

 fore us at Mrs. M. H. Stiver's two of 

 our finest trees, one a white oak, the 

 other a red oak, each 4 feet in diam- 

 eter and 80 feet high; both plants 

 perfectly shaped, and with huge wide- 

 spreading limbs, covering an area 

 equal to their height. 



Other fine specimens of oak we have 

 are a group of three fine white oaks at 

 Old Oaks Cemetery on Wissahickon 

 avenue; a red oak at Stewart A. Jel- 

 lett's "One Oak," Pulaski avenue, near 

 Apsley street; a beautiful tree on the 

 grounds of Francis B. Reeves, Clapier 

 street and McKean avenue; our most 

 striking and picturesque oak at Judge 

 P. Carroll Brewster's, Manheim street, 

 near Wissahickon avenue; a great 

 white oak at Ivy Hill Cemetery, near 

 Pennsylvania Railroad, a single finely 

 developed specimen 5 feet in diameter 

 and 100 feet high; and if not the larg- 

 est, one of the finest, and certainly our 

 most interesting oak planted by John 



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