RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



Walking in the Wissahickon upon 

 two occasions with men of travel, I 

 asked, "Did you ever see a more beau- 

 tiful place?" One answered, "It is 

 very much like the scenery of New 

 Zealand, but it is better." Another 

 said, "I have traveled throughout Eu- 

 rope, and the only place that will com- 

 pare at all with it is the Trossachs in 

 Scotland, but in extent it is insigni- 

 ficant compared to this." Henry Car- 

 vill Lewis, who "circled the globe" be- 

 fore attaining his "majority," told me 

 in all his travels he saw nothing that 

 in his estimation approached the beau- 

 ty of the Wissahickon, and others who 

 have traveled far and who lived long 

 abroad have told me "the Wissahick- 

 on is incomparable." 



So we may know much about "Bar- 

 tram's cypress," a plant 9 feet in di- 

 ameter and 120 feet high, while we 

 may not have noticed the beautiful 

 cypress at "Fairfield;" the specimen 

 at David Peltz's, on Nicetown lane; 

 the exceedingly fine specimen 2 feet 

 in diameter and 80 feet high at James 

 E. Caldwell's, on Manheim street; 

 specimens at Henry's, Main street, op- 

 posite Fisher's lane; at David Hinkle's, 

 on Main street, near Penn street; at 



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