RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



are beautiful specimens of locust 

 (robinia pseudacacia), walnut and 

 honey-locust (gleditschia triacanthos) ; 

 Peter Leibert house, where are fair 

 Norway spruce, horse-chestnut and 

 silver maple; the Church of the Breth- 

 ren grounds, where grow four of our 

 finest trees, two larch trees, each 2 

 feet in diameter and 60 feet high, and 

 two coffee trees of magnificent devel- 

 opment, plants 2 feet in diameter by 

 80 feet high each; several striking 

 plants of merit at Peter D. Hinkle's; 

 St. Michael's Lutheran Church 

 grounds, where is a superb specimen 

 of Irish yew (taxus, var. Hibernica), 

 resembling, but in beauty far exceed- 

 ing, similar plants at St. Vincent de 

 Paul's Church, and Lower Burying 

 Ground; Phil-Ellena, the one-time res- 

 idence of George W. Carpenter, whose 

 garden of home gardens, if not the 

 greatest, was at least the one most 

 widely known, but its rare plants are 

 now distributed and its notable trees 

 in the main leveled to accommodate 

 "Pelham," a late product of capital 

 and change. 



At George Hesser or William M. 

 Bayard house, opposite, is a number 

 of fine box-bordered walks, an impres- 



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