RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



lane and County line, we have merito- 

 rious if not great persimmons; and at 

 Miss Hooker's, Main street above 

 Washington lane; also at Joseph 

 C, Channon's, Main street, above 

 Pastorius street, we have at each 

 place two specimens, noteworthy 

 because being directly upon our main 

 highway they serve to remind us of 

 farm days and the simple character of 

 our one-time village. Here, too, at 

 "Channon's," under the care of Miss 

 Amelia R. Wood, is a lusty Japanese 

 persimmon (diospyros kaki) which 

 never fails to fruit. Also here, as well 

 as at Miss Elizabeth R. Johnson's near- 

 by, are quince, pear and apple or- 

 chards, survivors of ancient days, 

 blossoming as of old. 



Townsend Ward, with others before 

 him, and followed by Judge Samuel W. 

 Pennypacker, have given accounts of 

 a great but almost unknown man who 

 had the confidence to address Crom- 

 well upon his plans, a religious writer 

 of wide influence, the founder of a suc- 

 cessful community, which existed 

 nearly 200 years before that of the 

 more widely known Brook Farm of 

 New England. This man was Peter 

 Cornelius Plockhoy, and his colony 



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