Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . LUSHING AND VICINITY the lawn of the oldBowne Mansion nearthe Stand Pipe. Many fine specimensof weeping trees areto be seen. Besides theWeeping Beech wehave the WeepingBirch, Weeping Wil-low, Mulberry, Spruce,Hemlock and For-sythia. The flowering shrubsopen the season withthe Forsythia early in Old Murray House—Residence Geo. W. Breck, the Artist April and the JapOnica, Almond, Lilac, Syringa, Azalea, Rhododendron, Mountain, Laurel, Fringe tre
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . LUSHING AND VICINITY the lawn of the oldBowne Mansion nearthe Stand Pipe. Many fine specimensof weeping trees areto be seen. Besides theWeeping Beech wehave the WeepingBirch, Weeping Wil-low, Mulberry, Spruce,Hemlock and For-sythia. The flowering shrubsopen the season withthe Forsythia early in Old Murray House—Residence Geo. W. Breck, the Artist April and the JapOnica, Almond, Lilac, Syringa, Azalea, Rhododendron, Mountain, Laurel, Fringe tree, Wygelia, Snow-ball, Wisteria, Honeysuckle and many others join in the procession untillate in August or September. Hydrangea Grandiflora and Rose ofSharon bring up the rear. Two of the finest collections are to be seenon private grounds, one is on Mr. J. D. Wellss place, on Broadway, andthe other on the Parsons estate. And on the latter are the two finestTulip trees in Flushing. Both are over 3 feet in diameter. The tallestis over 100 feet high. These two trees were standing when the BritishRedcoats camped there during the Revolutionary
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