RARB AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



Continuing through Wister's wood, 

 a place where its late owner loved to 

 roam, we note near the upper spring 

 an odd twin growth, to which Charles 

 T. Macarthur, superintendent of the 

 Germantown Gas Works near by, di- 

 rected my attention. Here are two 

 trees, one a red oak and the other a tu- 

 lip poplar, which for several feet to- 

 gether grow as one, resembling a unity 

 of two species, I discovered growing 

 on Dark Run lane, near the Asylum 

 pike, some years ago. 



Following the Wingohocken Valley 

 southward we round the point to 

 "Mill" or "Valley creek," and on our 

 left find "Little Wakefield," the home 

 of Ellicott Fisher, where a number of 

 chestnut, butternut and tulip poplar 

 trees of fair proportions may be ob- 

 served, but not any of which are 

 equal to the lofty vigorous specimens 

 appearing on "Wakefield's" bank to 

 the right, where sturdy oaks, not ob- 

 servable from the front, here impres- 

 sively stand. "Belfield Homestead, 

 with its famous coffee tree and lovely 

 boulevard of maples," now appears be- 

 fore us a perfect haven of rest, its most 

 prominent plants thus referred to 

 by W. E. S. Baker, standing con- 



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