OTHER WELL-KNOWN TREES 



height, and the height is ninety-eight feet. 

 The spread is not over sixty-five feet, prob- 

 ably a httle more than half of what it was 

 before the beautiful, long Hmbs fell to the 

 ground. 



A movement was at one time started, 

 but came to no effect, to rejuvenate and 

 preserve this tree by surgery. The tree 

 would respond to treatment even now, and 

 there is abundant precedent for so good a 

 cause — for example the action taken by the 

 W'inthrop Improvement and Historical Asso- 

 ciation to perpetuate the memory of the old 

 Gibbons Elm. 



The Gibbons Elm stood near the dweUing 

 of Major General Edward Gibbons, who was 

 one of the fifteen men to whom PuIIen Point 

 was allotted in 1637, and one of the founders 

 of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- 

 pany. When the 275th anniversary of the 

 allotment was observed, in June, 191 2, a 

 service was held in special honor of the elm 

 tree which had witnessed so much of the 

 history of the town of Winthrop, and which 

 had grown so old as to render its removal 



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