RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



developed, which each sturdily rose 

 to an additional height of 30 feet. 



Without exception, the finest and 

 most perfect white pine in our district 

 is a plant growing on a knoll on "Pe- 

 rot's Farm," now Northwood Ceme- 

 tery. This tree has a trunk 21/^ feet 

 in diameter, rises to a height of 70 

 feet, has a spread of 40 feet, and is 

 vigorous, perfect and very beautiful. 



At "Outalauna," the residence of Jo- 

 seph Wharton, is an exceedingly fine 

 silver poplar (populus alba), and near 

 at "Bonnenal Cottage," the home of 

 Mrs. Anne de Benneville Mears, are 

 two immense buttonwood trees (pla- 

 tanus occidentalis) with trunks 4 feet 

 In diameter, each with a height of 100 

 feet, and 40 feet spread. In "Old York 

 Road," Mrs. Mears, writing of "Bonne- 

 nal Cottage," states "it was surround- 

 ed by a fine lawn and in front still 

 stands one of the sycamore trees 

 whose age is over 300 years, and its 

 companion was planted by Dr. George 

 De Benneville, Sr., in 1768." 



With us continue many notable 

 buttonwood trees, although all our 

 home trees are inferior to specimens 

 growing in more favorable locations. 

 In Case's Botanical Index, Page 4G, 



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