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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



[ALL OF FAME" FOR TREES 



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Here is the Wethersfield 

 Elm, for which the claim is 

 made that it is the largest 

 elm in the United States. 

 The age of the tree is 250 

 years, the height 97 feet, it 

 has a spread of 147 feet and 

 a circumference of 28 feet. 

 Some of the limbs extend 

 sixty feet from the trunk and 

 two of the limbs were de- 

 stroyed in storms during 1918. 



A great deal of care has been 

 given this tree by the im- 

 provement association of this 

 Connecticut town and a great 

 deal more care must be given 

 it, experts say, in order to 

 save the tree. N. A. Millane, 

 of Middletown, Connecticut, 

 also nominates this tree for 

 a place in the Hall of Fame 

 of trees being compiled by 

 the American Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. 



Beneath these trees the most famous, twelve white oaks in the United States, General Washington often sat. They have 

 been nominated for a place in the Hall of Fame of the American Forestry Association at Washington, which asks for data 

 and pictures of trees with a history. The trees in this picture were planted in 1730 on the Baylor-Newmarket Plantation in 

 Caroline County, Virginia. J. B. Baylor, who nominates them for "Who's Who," says that two famous men were born in 

 a house once within the shade of these trees often visited by General Washington. One was Colonel George Baylor, aide 

 to General Washington; and the other was Major George Armistead, who was in command at Fort McHenry when Key wrote 

 the National anthem. 



