RARB AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



"Ivy Lodge;" at Vernon; at Town Hall 

 Square; at several points on West 

 Walnut lane, at Pomona; and the 

 group of three very fine cypress 

 trees we passed at Friends' grounds. 



There are many other fine cy- 

 press trees with us, but our 

 most noted ones are on Main 

 street, above Washington lane, where 

 at Ellwood Johnson's is a group of 

 three trees of unusual height, and one 

 solitary plant 5 feet in diameter by 

 100 feet high, conspicuous by its size. 

 These plants grow upon "Honey Run," 

 on ground once owned by Peter Key- 

 ser, whose son of the same name, a 

 "preacher" and tanner, brought them 

 from South Carolina, and under his di- 

 rection about the year 1800 were here 

 planted by Israel Haupt, so Miss Eliz- 

 abeth R. and Ellwood Johnson inform- 

 ed me. 



At the Deshler-Morris home, owned 

 and occupied by Elliston P. Morris, is 

 one of our finest gardens, possessing 

 several of our largest and finest trees. 

 Mr. Morris wrote me: 



"The exact age of some of my fine 

 old trees is uncertain, the family tra- 

 dition is that some of them were plant- 

 ed by my grandfather, or members of 



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