RARB AND NOTABLE PLANTS 



ments as Alexandria, West Chester 

 and some New England towns, but 

 not any of which, so far as I have been 

 able to observe, is able to approach 

 the treasure ever present with us. 

 Much that we desire to present we 

 thus are obliged to curtail or ignore, 

 and with one more thought we shall 

 conclude. 



When visitors of distinction called 

 upon George W. Childs at "Wootten," 

 they invariably were requested to 

 plant a tree. The custom is a pleasing 

 one, worthy of imitation, and should 

 be encouraged. Wrote Thomas Mee- 

 han: "trees are associated with our 

 dearest memories and most important 

 events." Abroad memorial and his- 

 toric trees are so numerous that we 

 refer to them only for illumination, 

 and in our own country we have the 

 "Charter Oak" of Connecticut, the fa- 

 mous "Elm of Cambridge," and the 

 "Treaty Tree" of Philadelphia. Other 

 trees quite as important, but not so 

 well known, are the "Liberty Tree" of 

 Newport, the mulberry tree of Mary- 

 land under which the first settlers met 

 to establish a government, and the 

 plane tree of Burlington, to which 



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