THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



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THE Roby Elm, so named from Parson Roby, who planted it, about 

 the year 1770, stands on Main Street in the town of Saugus. Its 

 circumference is 15 feet 2 inches, spread 100 feet and height 75 feet. The 

 trunk is of unusual length, being about 30 feet, and numerous large 

 branches sweep upwards for at least twenty feet more before spreading 

 to form the crown. It is related that the parson selected and dug this 

 tree with great care, placing it in his house, still a fine old residence and 



one of the land- 

 marks of Sau- 

 gus, where he 

 kept it until the 

 following morn- 

 ing and planted 

 it in a suitable 

 spot in his yard. 



THE ELIOT OAK 



JOHN' ELIOT, justly styled Apos- 

 tle to the Indians, and founder 

 of Xatick, first gathered the red 

 men together, about 1632, "from 

 their scattered kind of life into 

 civil society" within the shades of 

 the forest, and preached to them 

 beneath a white oak, now a mighty 

 tree, universally known as the 

 Eliot Oak. 



THE summer 

 tourist on 

 his way to Cape 

 Cod has often 

 passed through 

 the portion of 

 Hingham lying 

 just to the south 

 of N a n t asket 

 Junction near 

 the Cohasset 

 town line. He 



has noticed, on the right hand side of the road a very large and sym- 

 metrical tree, known as the Cushing Elm. The name of Cushing has 

 been justly bestowed upon the "ancestral elm." The family came from 

 Hingham in old England and settled in Hingham in New England as 

 early as 1638. Measured in the summer of 1916, the spread of the 

 branches is over 100 feet and the circumference of the trunk 16^ feet 

 four and a half feet from the ground. 



THE ROBY ELM 



THE CUSHING ELM 



