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Five very erect limbs rise to the height of perhaps 80 feet where 

 they spread suddenly forming a flat top with a pendant border. The 

 Elm before the residence of Mr. John Hale, in Boxford, planted in the 

 year 1745, measured in 18G0, was, 



Circumference 19 feet, 1 foot from the ground. 



13 " 5 feet " " " 

 Diameter of the spread of the branches, 100 feet. 



In 1865 the tree known as the Zadoc Wilkins Elm, in Danvers, 



measured, 



Circumference 16 feet 6 inches, 1 foot from ground. 

 '• 13 " 6 " 4 feet " 



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Spread, diameter 68 feet. Height 80 feet. 



The same tree in 1875, measured, 



Circumference 17 feet inches, 1 foot from ground. 

 " 13 '• 3 " 4 feet " 



Spread and height about the same. 



The fine Elm in Peabody, on the old Eudicott estate, measured by 

 the writer in 1875 (May), was. 



Circumference 20 feet 1 inch, 2 feet from ground. 



" 17 " 2 inches 6 '< " " 



•where the trunk was the least size. 



At 15 feet from the ground the trunk divided into sixteen branches, 

 which were quite erect, forming a fine head 80 or 90 feet high. 



The Woodbury Elms at North Beverly, were in 1875 respectively, 12 

 feet 10 inches and U feet 8 inches at 6 feet above the ground. Another 

 old tree at the corner of Cabot and Balch Sts., felled in 1878, measured 

 in 1875, 16 feet 4 inches at 6 feet. Mr. W. P. Upham kindly furnishes 

 the following notes on the Boxford Elms. The Hubbard Elm in 

 Boxford, undoubtedly the largest in the county, measured in 1858, 

 was 16 feet 8^ inches in circumference at 6 feet from the ground. The 

 same tree measured in 1877, was 17 feet 10^ inches at the same place. 



The Hale Elm, previously mentioned, also in Boxford, measured in 

 1877, was 12 feet 8 inches at 6 feet from the ground, and is without 

 exception the most graceful tree to be found in the county. The 

 diameter of its spread is 107 feet 6 inches. Many of the branches 

 drop to within a few feet of the ground. 



Ulmus campestris. (European Elm), and perhaps others are now 

 and then met with under cultivation. 



Celtis occidentalis, L. (Nettle Tree, Hackberry.) Fine 

 specimens of the flowers, leaves, and fruit of this tree are in the 

 herbarium of the Peabody Academy of Science, collected in Ipswich, 



