RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



At Walnut lane and WissaMckon 

 avenue is a specimen of pinus rigida 

 one foot in diameter and 30 feet high. 

 At James A. Mason's, near Upsal Sta- 

 tion, is a group of pinus inops. At 

 Thomas' Mill road on the Wissahick- 

 on, and eastward on the same road in 

 the open above Towanda street, are 

 from one to two hundred pinus rigida, 

 interesting survivors of a flora sup- 

 planted. On Stenton avenue, near 

 Bethesda Home, we have an isolated 

 group of pinus inops, and at County 

 Line road and Limekiln pike, also on 

 Mt. Airy avenue near Main street are 

 solitary specimens of the same species. 



The Wissahickou is covered by 

 numerous valuable plants, but of these 

 a majority is too densely crowded to 

 develop to the best advantage. Sev- 

 eral years ago Thomas Meehan in Mee- 

 hans' Monthly, asked for data of sas- 

 safras trees, the text-books and gen- 

 eral information agreeing that the av- 

 erage height of mature specimens of 

 this plant to be 30 feet. At "Solitude" 

 and at the "Indian Mound," on E. W. 

 Clark's grounds, School House lane, 

 there are specimens rising to a greater 

 than this height, and at Tulpehocken 

 and Musgrave streets were twin spec- 



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