RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



Boutillier's on East Washington lane, 

 and elsewhere near, there are many 

 other specimens worthy of record, but 

 space and time details and elabora- 

 tion forbid. 



The deep frost of last winter played 

 havoc with many plants, partly or 

 wholly destroying box, ivy and other 

 evergreens not usually affected. The 

 celebrated evergreen magnolia (mag- 

 nolia grandiflora) at Lippincott's, 

 Broad and Sansom streets, Philadel- 

 phia, entirely dropped its leaves; in 

 many ponds all the fish were killed, and 

 losses in other directions one may not 

 yet undertake to estimate. Untouch- 

 ed, however, we have many box-bor- 

 dered garden walks, such as may be 

 seen at "White Cottage," at "Grumble- 

 thorpe," at "Wyck," at Spring 

 Bank, at C. M. Bayard's, on 

 upper Main street; formal designs set 

 in green like those at Robert S. New- 

 hall's, Main and Gorgas streets; but 

 the most elaborate and most perfect of 

 our box borders are those adorning the 

 garden of George C. Thomas, at Blue 

 Bell Hill, protected by beautiful hedges 

 of osage orange, arbor vitae and neat- 

 ly clipped hemlock. 



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