Germantown old and new

This outline sketch of our “rare and notable plants” was prepared at the direction of “The Germantown Horticultural Society” and was read at its public meeting of May 9, 1904,--...

Advancing northward by way of York road, we note on the grounds of J. Bertram Lippincott a fine white oak (quercus alba) with a trunk four feet in diameter and rising to a heigh...

At one time several of our largest trees were to be found at Old Oaks Cemetery, grounds once a part of John Tucker’s “plantation.” This burying ground was located on Township Li...

I wonder how many who pass up and down Main street, or who visit the Friends’ Library, notice the trees at “Friends’ Meeting.” To me these are always a delight, and I love to lo...

Here is a famous American yew, a plant distinct from English yew; a noted catalpa, a dwarf spruce, a handsome tulip-poplar, a number of towering white pines, an exceedingly fine...