RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



beds, and the "York and Lancaster" 

 rose still blooms, though it is a curious 

 dwarf. The Marie Louise, a sweet light 

 pink rose, has lived on all through the 

 garden for I am sure the past hundred 

 years. I try to replace the trees or 

 plants that have died. There was once 

 a double row of white Hawthorn to 

 the Johnson street entrance. The red 

 berries were so bright, and made a 

 charming English decoration for 

 Christmas. A double pink hawthorne 

 was a very fine tree." 



"The fringe tree was an old favorite, 

 arching gracefully over the middle 

 walk, and when gone was replaced 

 by another, and a group of tartarian 

 honeyscukle is still blooming every 

 spring after the daffodils and cowslips 

 and double low buttercups with their 

 mottled shiny leaves, periwinkles and 

 lilies of the valley were in every shady 

 spot, and the late summer was gor- 

 geous with phlox — the hardy — and 

 Drummondii, larkspurs, tritoma, trum- 

 pet vine, and the like." 



Though many of "Upsala's" best 

 trees are no more, here yet are sev- 

 eral of which we may be justly proud. 

 The once well-known creeping yew is 

 gone, and the silver fir planted in 1800, 



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