OTHER WELL-KNOWN TREES 



chusetts. It marks the place where Gama- 

 liel Beaman, an early settler, built his house 

 in 1659. The measurements are as follows: 

 circumference at the ground, 29 feet; at 

 breast height, 20 feet; at five feet from the 

 ground, 19 feet, 9 inches; height, 75 feet; 

 spread of branches, 90 feet. 



Middlesex County 



The Rugg Elm (also known as the Gates 

 Elm) at Framingham, situated about two 

 hundred yards from the turnpike road, be- 

 tween Framingham and Fayville near the 

 grounds of the Country Club, is the largest 

 elm herein described. If, indeed, it is a 

 single tree, and not two trees springing from 

 a common root system, it is without doubt 

 the largest elm to be found anywhere in 

 New England. The circumference at one 

 foot from the ground is twenty-eight and 

 a half feet, and at about three feet from the 

 ground the trunk divides into two parts, 

 one of which, at breast height, is seventeen 

 feet, and the other fourteen feet in circum- 

 ference. Between these two trunks there is 



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