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The Dundas Elm. Tlie finest tree in tin- ("ilv of IMiila- 

 delphia, at Broad and AValnut Streets, wliieli is variously 

 estimated from 150 to 400 years of age. It was once a )<art 

 of the Vauxhall gardens. On September S, 1S1!I, wlu-n a 

 mob, incensed at the failure of an announced l)all<)on 

 ascension, set fire to the garden, the flames sprc-id to the 

 branches of the tree several times, but wci-c prnnipily 

 extinguished by the firemen. For an illustration of tlii.s 

 tree see Forest Leaves, IV, p. 130. 



Bartram Cypress. This tree (see ante, page <;.')) still 

 standing, although dead, is seven feet in diameter, and was 

 planted about 1769. (Forest Leaves, V, p. 120, for full-page 

 illustration.) 



The Rodman Bidtonivood Tree. Standing at a place 

 called Flushing, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on the 

 Newportville Road, about one half-mile from Newport ville, 

 and about two miles from Croydon Station, Pennsylvania 

 Railroad. Planted about 1745 by William Rodman. The 

 tree measures twenty -nine feet six inches at a point two feet 

 from the ground, and twenty-eight feet, four inches in cir- 

 cumference at a point six feet from the ground. It ajipears 

 to be in a perfect state of preservation (Forest Leaves, 

 VI, p. 12). 



Trees in Bartram^s Garden. See description of the 

 garden under the biographical sketch of John Bartram, tor 

 the Petre Pear Tree, Christ's Thorn, Smyrna Box-woo(l. 

 Turkey Box-wood, Bartram Oak, Silver Maple luirojK-an 

 Cornel (Cornvs mas), Papaw-tree. Yellow-wood {]lrgilia 

 lutea); a tree of extremely large size, and perfectly healthy, 

 growing near the Bartram house. 



DeHart's Gordonia puhescens. ( Jn Woodland Avenue, 



