RARB AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



McMahon's on East Chelten avenue 

 are two handsome wisterias grown as 

 standards. All these are notable 

 plants, and conspicuous among an in- 

 numerable company which help beau- 

 tify our town. 



At the Johnson homestead are sev- 

 eral fine box trees planted in the year 

 1800, and these bring to mind other 

 superior box trees ; plants on Hermann 

 street, near Baynton street; at Hack- 

 er house, on Main street; at Vernon, 

 and at many other points in our ter- 

 ritory. 



At Ellwood Johnson's we shall halt 

 for a moment to partake of his spark- 

 ling spring water, and note a pear tree 

 of Revolutionary days which yet 

 spreads its branches over a charming 

 spring-house. Here until the storm 

 which overthrew Christ Church stee- 

 ple, stood an old willow (salix baby- 

 lonica) with a trunk 5l^ feet in diam- 

 eter, and one of the first weeping wil- 

 low trees planted in America, a nota- 

 ble specimen which outliving its 

 strength was felled by the great wind 

 of the storm referred to, but now a 

 scion from its roots has risen to pre- 

 serve its memory. 



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