RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



imens, one now surviving, exceeding 

 this height, and finely formed. Near 

 the "Suicide's Grave," north of Rabbit 

 lane, George Redles informed me there 

 is a specially fine specimen. In the 

 Wissahickon, near Thorp's lane, I 

 measured a slender specimen 80 feet 

 in height, but the finest plants of this 

 species I know were those measured 

 for me by Joseph Heacock, two plants 

 growing near Media, each three feet 

 in diameter and 80 feet high. 



About home we have numerous and 

 exceedingly fine specimens of juniper 

 (juniperus virginiana). Amost where- 

 ever one goes these may be observed 

 — along the borders of Wissahickon, 

 at "Bummers' Cave" on Stenton ave- 

 nue, on Chew street north of Johnson 

 street, a place known to Ellwood John- 

 son as "Vinegar Hill," and at Tul- 

 pehocken street and Wingohocken 

 creek. This latter tree has a 

 trunk 3 feet in diameter and is 35 feet 

 high. A short time ago it was a 

 healthy, beautiful specimen, but now 

 it is partly or wholly dead, a plant 

 when in its prime approached in my 

 knowledge only by two like it which 

 grow on Sumneytown pike, near "In- 

 dian Creek Meeting." At Roberts Le 



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