RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



diameter by 20 feet high, with a 

 spread of 20 feet, and here are two 

 sassafras trees (sassafras officinalis) 

 2 feet in diameter by 40 feet high, both 

 notable plants, one, however, surpass- 

 ing the other in form. These are re- 

 markable plants, and stand on historic 

 ground, once part of "Carlton." 



Here the army of Washington was 

 encamped, and here during an en- 

 campment of the Civil War Joseph 

 Meehan, botanist and horticulturist, 

 active among us, first did "picket 

 duty." Here also is a tulip poplar, 4 

 feet in diameter and 100 feet high, not 

 equal to Wakefield's notable speci- 

 men, but yet a plant of great merit. 



We have many superior tulip pop- 

 lars, one being at "Woodside," Ed- 

 ward T. Steel's residence on West 

 School House lane, 4 feet in diameter 

 and 100 feet high; another on John 

 Wagner's grounds on the same lane 

 being 5 feet in diameter and 60 feet 

 high. There are also several fine 

 tulip poplars at Thomas MacKellar's, 

 on Shoemaker's lane, but the finest 

 specimen here, like th^ Blair linden 

 at Main street and Walnut lane, has 

 been despoiled. 



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