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these trees grows along the walls of the fields at the 

 northeast of the reservoir of the Salem water works in 

 Beverly. 



The paper birch (Betula papyrifera) is considered a 

 rare tree in southern New England, for our county is 

 about the limit of its distribution in this direction. It 

 grows naturally in our "great pastures," at Naugus 

 Head, around Wenham pond, Suutaug lake, Lynnfield, 

 and more abundantly at North Andover and George- 

 town. The only paper birch in our city streets is a 

 fine specimen at No. 4 Arabella street, planted by Mr. 

 G. D. Phippen many years ago. This is the tree 

 which, growing at the north to great size, furnishes 

 the birch bark for Indian canoes, and hence the name 

 by which it is sometimes known, — canoe birch. 



The European white birch (Betula alba) is very 

 closely related to our common wbite birch, but it has 

 rather smaller leaves with shorter points. There are 

 trees of this species in Mr. Gilbert Streeter's yard, 106 

 Bridge street, and at Mr. A. W. West's, 12 Chestnut 

 street. It is planted on Felt street and in the Broad 

 street cemetery, the first and third, counting from the 

 east, of a row of trees just at the bend of the roadway 

 south from the High School building. 



The weeping birch, often burdened in catalogues with 

 the cumbersome name of "cut-leaved-weeping-white- 

 birch," is probably a variety, of garden origin, of the 

 European white birch. It is a very graceful, but' it is 

 thought not to be a long lived tree. There are fine 

 specimens at Mr. J. N. Peterson's, No. 28 Bufi'um 

 street, at Mr. Chas. Waters', Washington Square, at 

 No. 97 Federal street, at Mr. Geo. Chase's on Lafayette 

 street, and in several other places. 



