RARE AXD NOTABLE PLANTS 



Time "may come, and time maj' go," 

 for nature is change, and change na- 

 ture, but to us "Providence has been 

 very kind," and the past though hard- 

 ly pressed, yet dominates the present. 



Mansions and plantations justly 

 venerated have become the property 

 of all, and now among us we have 

 "Vernon" and "Stenton," "Water- 

 view" and "Cliveden" as public parks, 

 not great nor finished as yet, but ours, 

 while behind looming up in the possi- 

 bilities of "pleasure grounds" is 

 "Fernhill," and with us forever se- 

 cure is the peerless Wissahickon. 



Though slowly, the character of our 

 town alters, "orders old giving place 

 to new," but I rejoice that we have 

 so much to remind us of days gone by 

 —"Cliveden" and "Upsala," "Grumble- 

 thorpe" and "Wyck," to any of 

 which an enforced change would be a 

 catastrophe. 



Logan, Ruber's, Spring Alley, "Tink- 

 er" Fray's, Vernon and Chew springs 

 have gone, but Wister, Cope and John- 

 son springs continue to remind us of 

 rural long ago. Henry's, Vernon and 

 Methodist lane pumps, once with nev- 

 er-tiring handles traveling uncom- 

 plainingly "neath earth and sky" for 



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