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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



^S a matter of passing interest it may be said that in the old town of 

 Saugus there is a beautiful specimen of the black walnut, an older 

 tree, supposedly, than the Roby Elm, concerning which the author of 

 Our Trees" (of Essex County) says, "It is quite among the possibilities 

 that Cotton Mather could have stopped to rest beneath the shade of 

 the 'Cheever Walnut' on his way on horseback from Boston, to witness 

 witchcraft executions on Gallows Hill in Salem in 1692." It stands on 

 Center S t r eet 

 and measures 

 i3'A feet in cir- 

 cumference, 6- 

 feet in height, 

 and 87 feet h 

 the spread of 

 its branches. 



THE CHEEVER WALNUT 



TN some respects these elms of South Chelmsford are more beautiful as a 

 group than even the Hollinston elms, while the latter have that 

 peculiar interest and charm that arise from great age. The South 

 Chelmsford elms are on the W. R. Winning farm, not far from Carlisle 

 Station. Each is 14 feet in circumference, and the combined spread of 

 the branches is 125 feet. They are always conspicuous for the number 

 of birds that nest in their branches, chiefly orioles and vireos. 



THE MONROE TAVERN ELM 



T)IRECTLY in front of the "Old 

 Monroe Tavern" may be seen 

 this beautiful elm. Here, on the 

 day of the battle of Lexington, 

 horses were tied to a series of iron 

 spikes, driven at intervals of sev- 

 eral inches, around the tree. One 

 of these, over which the bark has 

 not yet closed, may still be seen 

 about an inch and a half below the 

 surface. This spike is exactly four 

 and a half feet from the ground. 

 The circumference of the tree at 

 this point is fourteen feet and five 

 inches. 



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THE PAIR OP ELMS AT SOUTH CHELMSFORD 



