IS THIS THE LARGEST ELM? 



MRS. Mary M. Williamson of 

 Middletown, Conn., furnishes 

 an addition to the several 

 magnificent elms for which 

 Connecticut is famous, in the Wethers- 

 field Elm which she beheves is the 

 largest in the State. 



This elm is at Wethersfield, Hartford 

 County, Connecticut, and when it was 

 measured in 1912 by Mrs. WilHamson's 

 husband its circumference was 27 feet 



1 inch, its spread 142 feet 83^ inches 

 and its age about 175 years. This is 

 larger than either the Benedict Elm 

 mentioned in American Forestry for 

 February or the Stirling Elm described 

 in American Forestry for April. In- 

 deed it is so much larger than either 

 of these two that there apparently is 

 justice in the claim that it is the largest 

 elm in the entire State. 



The Wethersfield, Connecticut, Elm 



IT IS CLAIMED THAT THIS IS THE LARGEST ELM IN CONNECTICUT AND THE DIMENSIONS 

 EXCEED THOSE OF ANY OTHER SO FAR REPORTED TO AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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