RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



this tree when very small may have 

 been brought as a gift to Mr. Chew 

 by one of his tenants, and there plant- 

 ed by Mr. Chew himself." 



Surviving on Upsal street is a com- 

 panion pine, which from its position 

 gives strength to this opieion, for 

 these trees appear to have been twins 

 planted in "Cliveden" equi-distant. 



"Upsala," opposite, which we all 

 know well by name, possesses several 

 of our finest and most notable plants. 

 Miss Sally W. Johnson, who owns and 

 occupies it, generously gave me an 

 account of its rare home plants, which 

 we may now only present in outline. 

 Among these plants were grapes 

 planted and cared for by Dr. Johnson, 

 a very large white flowering camellia, 

 a white flowering sweet jasmine, a 

 laurestinas, a daphne, not equal to the 

 one which Miss Ann Chew had in her 

 hall by the front window. Of her gar- 

 den. Miss Johnson's account is so in- 

 teresting that I cannot deny myself 

 the pleasure of quoting. In it "there 

 were in summer Bordeaux lilies, and 

 varlotta purpurea, a handsome red 

 clustered lily, and agapanthus with 

 their odd shade of lavender blue; fun- 

 kias, vincas, oriental poppies in garden 



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