RARB AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



there was recorded in 1880 a button- 

 wood tree growing in Greene county, 

 Indiana, having a trunk 16 feet in di- 

 ameter, and which rose with a clear 

 trunk 25 feet, the altitude reached be- 

 ing 160 feet, and plane trees much 

 greater than this are known. 



It would be futile to name all our 

 worthy specimens, so I shall without 

 mention pass many to locate a few 

 which more directly appeal to us. We 

 all may remember the buttonwood 

 tree within the gate to our "Earthly 

 Paradise," and whose denuded trunk 

 stands to remind us of days when set- 

 tlers first took up ground on "side 

 land lots." Here with an additional 

 story of recent growth is Naglee's 

 house, where James Logan for a sea- 

 son dwelt, a building like the "Rock 

 House," a venerable survivor and typ- 

 ical representative of the stone houses 

 of early Germantown. 



Recently we have lost one of two 

 well-known sycamore trees at Wag- 

 ner's, and the tree continuing is but 

 a reminder of its former greatness. 

 Another interesting specimen on Main 

 street is that on the grounds of Wil- 

 liam Heft, a tree 5^/^ feet in diameter 

 and 80 fee^ high, one of the trees 



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