RARB AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



men of mulberry of unusual size, 3 

 feet in diameter by 40 feet high, now 

 in bloom, to remind us of a "South Sea 

 bubble" burst, which troubled the in- 

 vestors of a generation past. 



Among the noted trees of German- 

 town was a pecan once standing on 

 the grounds of Dr. William R. Dun- 

 ton, and which was removed after the 

 erection of the First Methodist Church. 

 This tree was grown from one of sev- 

 eral nuts which Thomas Nuttall 

 brought from Arkansas and presented 

 to his friend, Reuben Haines, a prom- 

 inent officer of the Philadelphia Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences, and at whose 

 home in Germantown he was a fre- 

 quent guest. The nut which produced 

 Doctor Dun ton's tree was given by Reu- 

 ben Haines to his neighbor, Daniel 

 Pastorius,and two nuts were planted in 

 his own garden, all developed to plants 

 of maturity, but the trees at "Wyck" 

 died, while the Pastorius tree reach- 

 ed large proportions, bore fruit, and 

 it is to be regretted that a speci- 

 men of so much interest could not 

 have been preserved. 



In many respects a pecan (carya 

 olivaeformis) resembles a hickory 

 (carya tomentosa), a tree whose name 



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