The Stirling Elm. 



ANOTHER LARGE ELM 



THE statement that the Benedict 

 Elm in the township of Wilton, 

 Fairfield County, is the largest 

 elm in Connecticut, is chal- 

 lenged, and with just cause, by the 

 claim that the Stirling elm on the 

 country place of Mr. Henry E. Pellew, 

 at Sharon, Litchfield County, Conn., is 

 considerably larger. The Sharon elm 

 at A:}/2 feet above the ground, is 14 feet 

 11^ inches in circumference and the 

 spread about 105 feet, while the Stirling 

 elm, which was planted between 1750 



and 1755, and is now about 160 years 

 old, is 18 feet in circmnference at a 

 point 4 feet above the ground. Six 

 years ago it was 6 inches larger, the 

 reduction since then being due to the 

 necessity of scraping the bark which 

 was infected by the elm bark beetle 

 The greatest spread of the Stirling elm 

 is about 90 feet, it being exceeded by the 

 Benedict elm in this particiilar alone. 



In the neighborhood are several 

 white oaks and sugar maples which are 

 over 16 feet in circumference. 



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