RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



(juniperus squarrata), and several 

 specimens of araucaria. 



Miss Smith told me her father many- 

 times here tried to raise araucarias 

 (araucaria imbricata) in the open, but 

 never succeeded in keeping them over 

 three years, this much being "consid- 

 ered quite an achievement." In Eng- 

 land araucarias of great height are 

 quite common, so I doubt not the 

 length and severity of our winters is 

 responsible for the plant's non-exist- 

 ence in our gardens. At "Ivy Lodge" 

 are several fine mahonias (mahonia 

 aquifolium) of 35 years' growth, and 

 with the exception of a small speci- 

 men growing on the grounds of Ed- 

 ward Hacker, on Wister street, here 

 is the only cedar of Lebanon (cedrus 

 libani) to my knowledge growing 

 strictly within the town limits. This 

 is a fine plant about 25 feet in height, 

 and is one of two memorial trees plant- 

 ed in 1852 by John Jay Smith and John 

 Granville Penn, the latter the last of 

 the "proprietor's" line, in honor of 

 William Penn and James Logan. The 

 "William Penn" tree, planted by a de- 

 scendant of James Logan, is the plant 

 we may see. The James Logan tree 

 planted by a descendant of William 



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