RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



which changed the name of a public 

 house once here from "Ye Roebuck 

 Inn" to "Buttonwood Hotel." Though 

 often so asserted by over-zealous loy- 

 alists, these trees were not planted 

 "by Philadelphia's first mayor," but 

 by "Andrew Garret, who carried them 

 from the banks of the Schuylkill, and 

 here set them in place, as "The Guide" 

 some years ago instructed us. Andrew 

 Garret may be remembered as an ec- 

 centric character, who during the lat- 

 ter part of the eighteenth century had 

 a dwelling on Indian Queen lane, near 

 the "Falls." Here he lived alone, and 

 by robbers was one night foully mur- 

 dered, a sufl&cient warning, let us 

 hope, to all of like preferment. 



Other interesting buttonwood trees 

 are located at the pump on Manheim 

 street, where there is a specimen 4 

 feet in diameter by 80 feet high; at 

 Manheim, near the club house, where 

 is an odd-shaped specimen with a 

 short trunk 4 feet in diameter, and 

 awkwardly branching limbs rising to 

 a height of 100 feet; at Friends' 

 grounds on Main street, where is a 

 rare tree 4 feet in diameter by 60 feet 

 high, and another specimen at Market 

 Square, now only of interest because 



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