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THE DUMONT KENNEDY ELM 



F>LLOWING the printing of the picture of the "Wye Mills Oak" in Maryland as the first 

 picture in a "Hall of Fame" for trees, many pictures and much data have been submitted 



to the American Forestry Association. Have you a famous tree in your town? The 

 Association wants trees with a history rather than trees of unusual size. The elm pictured 

 here has been watched by Mayor Dumont Kennedy, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, for sixty 

 years. This tree has a spread of 99 feet and is 78 feet high. The tree is more than 125 years 

 old, according to Mr. Kennedy. It is four feet one inch in diameter four feet above the 

 ground. It is not as large as the famous sycamore at Worthington, Indiana, which, for a 

 long time, has been considered the largest shade tree in the country. As to the value 

 of tree planting by the younger generations, Mr. Kennedy gives quite a sermon in one of 

 his letters. This follows: 



"I had 12 trees planted on May 10, 1902. I placed them in a circle on a slightly rising 

 mound and set them so as to leave a center at least 100 feet across. This will make a fine 

 place for a house some day, and everybody who sees it, exclaims, 'What a fine building 

 place.' I think these 12 trees have added at least $1,000 to this acre lot. Before I set them 

 it was a bare cow lot, worth about $200. I have talked trees all my life, tried to get all the 

 school boys and others to buy a small tract of ground and begin while young to set trees and 

 improve, but it is difficult to get a boy to understand that he will ever be a man and that he 

 ought to prepare for old age while he has the strength and ambition. A boy thinks it will 

 take so long for a tree to grow, but he never thinks that the time will go anyway, even if he 

 does not set a tree." 



It is just this point exactly that the American Forestry Association is placing before 

 every school in the land. 



