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Chestnut street was planted by Mr. Henry Pickering, 

 probably in 1814. It is as large as tiie largest of the 

 fourelms previously noticed, and none of these trees are 

 nearly so large as the Bertram elm, which, as shown, is 

 not nearly as old. 



Dr. Henry Wheatland planted the elm at the residence 

 of Mr. George Wheatland, the tree next above the 

 Public Library estate, in 1838. It is now seven feet 

 eight inches m circumference. At the corner of Bufium 

 and School streets is a fine elm planted by Mr. Dever- 

 eux Dennis, probably in 1804, and which measures nine 

 feet in circumference. There is a very graceful weep- 

 ing elm just beyond the almshouse on Salem Neck. 

 Its beauty is the more remarkable when its exposed 

 situation is considered. 



It has been said that the trees on the upper portion 

 of Lafayette street were planted within the line of the 

 Derby estate, on account of some opposition to placing 

 them in the street itself. The street was laid out in 

 its present magnificent width at the suggestion of Mr. E. 

 Hersey Derby in 1808. Mr. David Waters informs me 

 that his father, but a short time before his death, while 

 passing these trees, said that when a boy he was called 

 by Mr. Derby to assist at planting them, holding the 

 saplings while the workmen filled the earth in about 

 them. Mr. Waters, senior, was born in 1796 and 

 would have been twelve years of age when the street 

 was laid out. The date of the planting of these elms, 

 thus corroborated, may, therefore, safely be placed at 

 1808. 



On the Common there appear to be elras of two 

 ages. Those near the western gate are evidently older 



