RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



lay rather in the speed of his horses 

 than in "crops" and trade and politics, 

 all of which claimed a large share of 

 his attention; also passing Naaman K. 

 Floyd's garden, and his numerous 

 plants of more than local inter- 

 est — we soon reach "Cliveden," 

 first occupied as a country seat 

 by Chief Justice Chew in the year 1763. 

 This is the battleground's centre, and 

 is sacred because of the men who died 

 there; but while appreciating this, let 

 us work and pray for a time when war 

 shall be considered a crime, and the 

 taking of human life for any cause, 

 murder. At "Cliveden" there are now 

 no plants of the Revolutionary period, 

 and many of its finest shrubs have 

 been planted within my memory. 



"Growing close against the Chew 

 mansion a beautiful rose of Japan. 

 It is certainly at least 75 years 

 old, and has delighted all who 

 have seen i^irf the quality and beauty 

 of its large red blossoms," so noted 

 William E. Meehan. Mrs. Chew wrote 

 me: "There were a number of magni- 

 ficent English elms, a row along the 

 front of the place near the street, ex- 

 tending as far as Upsal street, and 

 another row along Cliveden street." 



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