GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH THE TREES 



recent account of the creation of a trust fund 

 for the care of a great oak, as well as a 

 unique instance in Georgia, where a deed has 

 been recorded giving a fine elm a quasi -legal 

 title to its own ground, show that the rights 

 of trees are coming to be recognized. 



I have said little of the habitat, as the 

 botanist puts it, of the American elm. It 

 graces all North America east of the Rockies, 

 and the specimens one sees in Michigan or 

 Canada are as happy, apparently, as if they 

 grew in Connecticut or in Virginia. Our 

 increasingly beautiful national Capital, the one 

 city with an intelligent and controlled system 

 of tree -planting, shows magnificent avenues of 

 flourishing elms. 



But I must not forget some other elms, 

 beautiful and satisfactory in many places. It 

 is no discredit to our own American elm to 

 say that the English elm is a superb tree 

 in America. It seems to be characteristically 

 British in its sturdy habit, and forms a grand 

 trunk. 



The juicy inner bark of the red or "slip- 

 pery" elm was always acceptable, in lieu of the 



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