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POE CHERRY TREE 



Since cut down 



From a Photograph by Geo. E Stonebridge 



addition. There were fruit-trees in the yard, cherry-trees 

 near the house, and an apple orchard farther off near the rocky 

 ledge, that served as retaining wall for the eastern part of the 

 acre. From the little piazza one could look out on the sloping 

 acre of closely cropped greensward under the trees, towards 

 the east and south, over St. John's grounds and the meadows 

 below them. The higher points of the ledge afforded glimpses 

 of the Long Island hills beyond the East River. To the north- 

 west of the cottage extended a wood. 1 Cere Poe walked with 

 his friends, or competed with them in friendly athletics. 



