THE SHEFFIELD ELM 



continues to produce a strong, graceful and 

 pleasing appearance. 



Looking back over a period of seventy- 

 two years we find that "the great Sheffield 

 Elm had, in 1844, at the ground, a girth 

 of twenty-two feet six inches; at two feet, 

 eighteen feet six inches; at three, sixteen 

 feet nine inches; at six, sixteen feet seven 

 inches, above which it rapidly enlarges, and 

 divides at ten or twelve feet into three large 

 branches which soon subdivide. Its spread 

 westward from the center is forty-nine feet 

 six inches, and it is nearly equal on every 

 side; height sixty or seventy feet." 1 



At least three and a half feet had been 

 added to these measurements in July of 

 1916. The three- foot circumference had in- 

 creased to twenty feet and three inches, 

 and the six-foot circumference to nineteen 

 feet and seven inches. At breast height the 

 tree was nineteen feet and three inches. 

 The spread westward was fifty-four feet and 

 the height eighty-two feet. 



1 Emerson, "The Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts," vol. 2, 

 p. 328. 



