RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



hardy "English ivy" brought originally 

 from Sir Walter Scott's "Abbotsford" 

 by Dorsey Cox, and was here planted 

 under the direction of the late beloved 

 rector. Dr. John K. Murphy. 



At this place also grew a white mul- 

 berry tree (morus alba) of local celeb- 

 rity, one of many which sprang up in 

 this neighborhood, the parent tree be- 

 ing at the "cocoonery," Hermann and 

 Morton streets. Although Dr. Philip 

 Syng Physick, nor his son Philip — who 

 was never a doctor — had any direct 

 connection with this tree, it is justly 

 prized, and I am pleased that in the 

 form of a "Canterbury chair," made 

 by George Redles, it now occupies a 

 prominent position in the chancel of 

 the church, for beyond these associa- 

 tions, it was grown in the Warner 

 burying ground, where was laid the 

 remains of the Warners, Daniel Geiss- 

 ler. Dr. Christopher Witt, and perhaps 

 John Kelpius, all Mystics and early 

 botanists, and we have before us a 

 memorial sanctified by the blood it 

 contains. 



Though the Warner ground mul- 

 berry was a foundling, we have on the 

 original "multicaulis" grounds where 

 Philip Physick lived a solitary speci- 



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