RARE AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



yew once standing beside the Carpen- 

 ter Mansion at Phil-Ellena ; a white 

 oak of rembarkable growth show- 

 ing a trunk 5 feet in diameter, 

 a height of 60 feet, and having 

 an immense limb tapering from 

 2 feet in diameter, 32 feet long, 

 projecting horizontally for its entire 

 length, and completely spanning Rab- 

 bit lane, east of E. Rittenhouse Mil- 

 ler's place; a magnolia, the product of 

 skill if not art, flourishing on James 

 E. Gowen's grounds at Main street and 

 Gowen avenue, a monstrosity formed 

 by the union of a circle of plants 

 drawn together at about 3 feet above 

 the earth and united, rising in a cen- 

 tral trunk, reminding one of Alexan- 

 der Pope and his strange fancies at 

 Twickenham; a curious seat at "The 

 Cherries" at Spring-bank, naturally 

 supported by the outgrowth of two 

 oak trees, — and near the same spot, a 

 storm-cleft chestnut tree, which 

 strangely has renewed itself; many 

 rare and beautiful magnolias, such as 

 may be seen at Mrs. Taws', West Tul- 

 pehocken street, at Thomas Meehan's, 

 at "Wyck," at William Heft's, and in 

 general distribution throughout our 

 territory; "cut-leaved" plants in va- 



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