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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



rPHERE is probably no tree dearer to the hearts of the people of Massa- 

 *" chusetts, or even of the country at large, than the Washington Elm 

 at Cambridge. Travelers from every leading nation of the world have 

 looked with reverence upon this spreading elm, and pondered long as 

 they read the inscription on the monument at its base. Artists have 

 painted it, poets have sung its praises, and most historians who have 

 written of the Revolution remind us that "under its branches Washington 



took command , - 



of the Conti- 

 nental Army on 

 the 3rd of July, 

 1775." More 

 than a hundred 

 and forty years 

 have come and 

 gone since that 

 important and 

 imposing event 

 took place, and 

 the Washington 

 Elm still stands. 1 

 Sorrowfully 

 now but a 

 shadow of its 

 former self. 



THE WASHINGTON ELM AT CAMBRIDGE 



"IVTOW on Boston Common there has arisen on the site of the Great Elm, 

 and from its roots, a sprout generally known as "the old elm's 

 descendant." It is now a lusty tree 6J4 feet in circumference, and is 

 surrounded by an iron enclosure. Bonner's map of 1722 earliest record 

 of famous trees of the Common, gives the location of the Great Elm true 

 native and king of the Common, which fell victim to a gale in 1876. 



THE LINDENS AT PLYMOUTH 



A ND the lindens of Plymouth 

 town! What manner of trees 

 were those which tossed their giant 

 branches against the stormy sky as 

 the Pilgrims landed? Not the 

 lindens, for while these grew beau- 

 tifully in the Mother country, they 

 had to be planted here. Certainly 

 the planting of such trees in the 

 New World was a mark of affection 

 for things held dear in the Old, 

 and the symbol of a friendship 

 which even the misunderstandings 

 of Revolutionary times could not 

 shatter. America abounds with 

 oaks, lindens and elms thus planted. 



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THE OLD ELM'S DESCENDANT 



