144 ROCHESTER ACADEiMY OF SCIENCE. [Oct. 8, 



1884. — History of the City of Rochester. By William F. Peck. 

 Syracuse, 1SS4. 



Frequent mention is made of the primitive forest growth. George H. 

 Harris, in one of the introductory chapters, says : " The town of Irondequoit, 

 north of the ridge, was known as the ' pine barrens' to the early settlers, who 

 cleared it of a heavy growth of pine trees, many of which stood upon the top 

 of the bluff and over the ancient cemetery sixty years ago." 



1884. — Report on the Forests of North America. By Charles S. 

 Sargent. Tenth Census of the United States, Vol. IX. 

 Washington, 1884. 



Mentions trees grooving in this region, naming particularly Asi?ni?ta 

 triloba (papaw) as being in Monroe county, and Qtiercus prmiis (chestnut oak) 

 in the valley of the Genesee. Speaks of the Wadsworth Oak, near Geneseo, 

 as over three meters in diameter. 



lgg8_ — An Historic Elm. The Story of the Great Elm on the Mark- 

 ham Estate. By Geo. H. Harris. Rochester Democrat and 

 Chronicle, May 13, 1888. 



The writer describes an old elm on the Markham estate in the town of 

 Rush, Monroe county. Says it was for many years a conspicuous landmark 

 in the Genesee valley, and an important natural feature well known to and 

 venerated by the Indians. For nearly a hundred years it had been known as 

 the Markham Elm. The trunk, at the smallest place below the branches, was 

 a little over 11 feet in diameter; its circumference just below the branches 

 was 38 feet ; three feet above the ground it measured 45 feet. At noon it 

 shaded an acre of ground. The limbs were remarkably long and slender, the 

 ends hanging down like ropes of trailing vines. 



1890-1896. — Silva of North America. By Charles Sprague Sargent. 

 Boston, 1S90-1896. 



Mentions trees of this region. Says of Acer barbaium, or black maple, 

 that it was first noticed by the younger Michaux on the banks of the Genesee 

 river, where it formed a forest of considerable size. Speaks of Hicoria lacm- 

 iosa {Carya sulcata) as not rare in the valley of the Genesee river, and of the 

 nuts being sold in the markets of Geneseo under the name of "king nut". 

 Speaks of the " Wadsworth Oak", which grew on the bottom lands of the 

 Genesee river, on the Wadsworth estate, a mile from Geneseo, as being the 

 largest specimen of Qtiercus platanoides (Q. bicolor) of which a record has 

 been preserved, and says: "In 185 1, the short trunk, which varied little in 

 size between the ground and the branches, had an average circumference of 

 27, with a minimum circumference of 24 feet." Mentions (Jtiercus prinus as 

 being found in the valley of the Genesee. 



iSqo. — Report of the Botanical Section of the Rochester Academy of 

 Science for 1889. By Mrs. J. H. McGuire, Recorder. Proc. 

 Roch. Acad, of Sci., A^ol. I. pp. 26-28. 



