RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



A creeping yew (taxus adpressa) ap- 

 pears in front of "Conyngham House" 

 or "Hacker House," Main street, oppo- 

 site Bringhurst street, but is not equal 

 to the famous plant once at Upsala, 

 yet, however, there is a most beautiful 

 specimen of this rare evergreen in the 

 garden of Edward Hacker on Wister 

 street. On grounds to the rear of 

 Conyngham House are several valua- 

 ble plants for data of which I am in- 

 debted to Miss Howell. 



Here was one of "the first wild flow- 

 er gardens" of later Germantown, con- 

 taining plants from many parts of the 

 United States, but a garden of which 

 only a trace now remains. Here also 

 is "the finest grove of over-cup oaks 

 (quercus macrocarpa) about, so Thom- 

 as Meehan always said," "and a speci- 

 men of strange weeping oak" (quercus 

 pendula). 



"Grumblethorpe," one of our most 

 familiar homes, is now before us, and 

 its plants are second only to its other 

 possessions. Its occupant and owner 

 is Charles J. Wister, to whom credit 

 earned fully given would seem but 

 empty flattery. Here all his long life 

 lived Charles J. Wister the father, a 

 man whom his neighbor, John Jay 



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