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6. Remarkable union of two trees; by Payson W. Lyman.—Near 
the village of North Chester, in Hampden Co. Mass. there stands a 
remarkable elm tree (Ulmus Americana), of which the annexed sketch 
dea. 
wooded hills rise abruptly. It is con- 
siderably exposed to the light, being 
Its diameter, near its 
y 1} feet, gradually diminishing in size 
toward its junction with the latter, where its diameter is a inches. 
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ability of this supposition is enhanced by the statement of the gentleman 
who owned the land‘forty years ago, that the tree then stood on the line 
arch, sup : 
bent over to form part of the fence. He further states that, if he re- 
members correctly, the branch now forming the arch then extended be- 
yond the tree with which it has united. t 
The arch runs lengthwise of the ravine, and, together with the trunks 
which rise from it, derives its nourishment from both sets of roots. 
these three intermediate trunks, that on the left is 14 inches in diameter, 
and attains an altitude equal to that of the main trunk on the left of it. 
The diameter of the second is 11 inches, and of the third 6 inches, the 
% Person desiring . 
- half-mile north of the village of North Chester, to a saw-mill, where - 
would ¢ i 
® would cross to the east side of the stream, traverse the fields, and 
climb the hill, following a little ravine for a distance of forty or fifty rods 
the edge of the woodland, where he would readily discover the tree, 
