RARB AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



Naglee's Hill; at Fern-hill, at George 

 BligM's and Dr. James Gardette's on 

 Wissahickon avenue; at Manheim, 

 where there is a beautiful tree three 

 feet in diameter and 90 feet high; at 

 Carlton on Indian Queen lane; at Arm- 

 strong's on Duy's lane, and at almost 

 every place on School House lane 

 from John Alhurger's, near Greene 

 street, to William Weightman's, near 

 the "Falls;" at Jacob A. Datz's, Sten- 

 ton avenue and Mill street, and at Al- 

 fred Williams', near by; at Old School, 

 County line and Limekiln pike; at 

 Vollmer's, Washington lane; at Up- 

 sala and Lutheran Seminary — indeed, 

 so many and so generally distributed 

 are these beautiful plants that it is 

 needless to further enumerate. 



At Butler Place is an odd white pine, 

 which curiously at a height of 40 feet 

 had its terminal bud destroyed, the 

 result being the development of a 

 trinity of side buds. In like manner 

 there is also a remarkable specimen 

 at Philip Guckes' on West School 

 House lane, a tree 2^^ feet in diame- 

 ter by 70 feet high. This tree's ter- 

 minal bud at 40 feet elevation having 

 been destroyed, two side shoots were 



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