RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



"The Farm" or "Butler Place" yet 

 contains many notable plants, though 

 the "row of old acacia trees near the 

 house" was removed, and "a double 

 row of 200 treees planted along the 

 side of the place" show wear. The 

 latter, however, is of great interest to 

 us, for in spite of an acknowledged 

 "combined ignorance" a majority of 

 these plants have lived, and from 

 "York Farm" in 1874 Fanny Kemble 

 wrote: "The trees I planted along the 

 low enclosure hedge of Butler Place, 

 30 years ago, stretch their branches 

 and throw their shadows half over the 

 road which divides the places." 



Though exceedingly pleasurable, we 

 may not linger here too long, and to 

 all interested in Germantown and its 

 associations, I suggest the reading of 

 "Records of Later Life" and "Further 

 Records," both books of great interest, 

 and mainly produced at "Butler Place" 

 and "York Farm." 



There are many avenues of silver 

 maples (acer dasycarpum) worthy of 

 record with us, among them being one 

 in Town Hall Park, another at the Pu- 

 laski avenue approach to "Fern-hill," 

 and also that leading to the Pinckney 



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