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And again : 



"When elm leaves are as big as a penny, 

 You must plant kidney beans, if you mean to have 

 any." 



In our country the elm has a number of inter- 

 esting historical associations. William Penn 

 made his famous treaty with : the Indians be- 

 neath the shade of a beautiful elm in Philadel- 

 phia. It blew, down in 1810. The site is now 

 marked by a marble column. The Burgoyne 

 Elm, at Albany, N. Y., was planted the day Bur- 

 goyne was brought to Albany a prisoner. 

 Washington took command of the American 

 army at Cambridge:, Massachusetts, under an 

 elm. Alice Lounsberry, in writing of this tree, 

 says : ' ' Longer than any other being the Wash- 

 ington Elm remained to testify to the younger 

 generations that it had been a witness of the 

 scene. Although not at all a phenomenal tree in 

 size, the estimate was at the time made that it 

 developed every year a crop of seven millions 

 of leaves, and that they exposed to the air 9. 

 surface of foliage equal to about five acres." 



The elm has several "earmarks" by which 

 it may be known. Keeler says one may tell its 

 dark outline against the sky even at night, for 

 the elm is one of four shapes : vase, umbrella, 



