RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



100-year-old box-bushes (boxus sem- 

 pervirens), and a good variety of 

 shrubbery, with its ever changing 

 bloom." 



With us are many exceptional gar- 

 dens, and these, with the beautiful 

 garden of Mr. Morris, I trust may be 

 presented at another time. 



We have also many rare "wild gar- 

 den plants," and such native rare and 

 notable plants as Goldie's spleen-wort, 

 climbing fern, walking fern, Nuttall's 

 spleen-wort, Scott's spleen-wort, Wis- 

 ter's coral plant, obolaria, Adam and 

 Eve plant, cancer root, and others ex- 

 ceedingly scarce and valuable, which 

 we may only in this way refer to. 



On Main street, opposite Armat 

 street, in a house occupied by Edward 

 Manley, a one time preceptor of mine, 

 once lived Christian Lehman, scribener, 

 surveyor, notary public and nursery- 

 man, and here in the old "nursery" is 

 an English walnut to remind us of the 

 first local importer of this valuable 

 tree. The present specimen belongs to 

 a later period, but is doubtless a pro- 

 duct of an original planting of sur- 

 rounding grounds. From a much used 

 advertisement of the Pennsylvania 

 Gazette of April 12, 1768, we learn 



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