RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



advance, and the great tree on the 

 hill equipped with a swing, like 

 "Green's Meadow," implanted in the 

 memory of every "Smearsburg" girl 

 and boy of the last generation, is gone 

 forever. Toland's and Wagner's and 

 Henry's are holding out "like grim 

 death," but it is only a question of 

 time when "Wayne Junction" shall 

 overwhelm them. 



It is a pity I have often thought that 

 fruit trees are not more often plant- 

 ed for shade, and native sweet-scent- 

 ed flowering plants for bloom, in a 

 measure to bring the best of orchards 

 and woods to home, and thus more di- 

 rectly beauty and utility combine. Our 

 wood plants without exception may be 

 readily grown if removed at a suita- 

 ble time and properly planted, and I 

 have never had failure in growing lau- 

 rel (kalmia latifolia), arbutus (epi- 

 gaea repens), and other of our native 

 plants considered difficult to trans- 

 plant. 



Those of us familiar with Main 

 street and Chelten avenue 25 years 

 ago may remember "Tinker" Frey's 

 famous swamp magnolia (magnolia 

 glauca). This is no more, but we have 

 now at George Redles' on Wister 



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