RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



his family. I doubt not some of the 

 older trees were there when it was 

 President George Washington's resi- 

 dence during the yellow fever epidem- 

 ic of 1793. The great storm two years 

 ago v/ith its wind and sleet sadly 

 spoiled my most attractive trees, and 

 in some cases left me hut skeletons of 

 their former beaut3% notably a 70-year- 

 old elm tree planted by my father, 

 Samuel B. Morris, which stands in the 

 middle of my grounds." 



Those who view the garden of Mr. 

 Morris wonder at its freshness, and 

 proceeding with its owner: 



"The great secret of my lawn is the 

 unbroken expanse of grass, and the 

 planting in conformity with establish- 

 ed rules of landscape gardening. I 

 have still some choice specimen trees, 

 notable an immense English horse- 

 chestnut (aesculus hippocastanum), 

 with a girth I should think of some 

 10 feet; a hybrid English walnut (jug- 

 lans regia) and butternut (juglans 

 cinerea) very unusual, about 70 feet 

 high and a girth of say 8 feet; a pretty 

 specimen of the lovely cut-leaved 

 beech (fagus S. heterophylla) ; a 70- 

 year-old magnolia glauca, a fine box 

 tree (boxus arborescens), and some 



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