RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



original plant, abused at Bartram Gar- 

 den after the retirement of Colonel 

 Carr, was rescued and revived by Wil- 

 liam De Hart at his garden on Darby- 

 road, where it grew for several years. 

 It was then presented to Joseph Mee- 

 han, on whose grounds, its energy 

 spent, it struggled through a preca- 

 rious existence to an honored death — 

 truly an interesting record of the most 

 remarkable plant in botanical nomen- 

 clature. 



From Main street nursery Thomas 

 Meehan removed to "Hongs' Farm," 

 on Chew street. His partner, William 

 Saunders, located first on Johnson 

 street, near Greene street, and later 

 took charge of the experimental gar- 

 dens at Washington. At the Chew 

 street nurseries are many of the choic- 

 est and most notable plants in Amer- 

 ica, specimens from which plates of 

 the "Flowers and Ferns of the United 

 States" were figured; indeed so many 

 "new and rare plants" that I shall 

 leave them, trusting that Joseph Mee- 

 han may favor us with a paper upon 

 the same, and at present we shall be 

 content with reference to a few valu- 

 able ones I think him likely to ignore 

 — namely, cut-leaved plum (prunus 



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