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twelve feet in circumference, retaining this measure- 

 ment for a distance of some thirty feet up their trunljs. 

 There is an immense pine, with a trunk circumference 

 quite as great, now on the land near the Hooper farm 

 in Boxford ; but its leading shoot was injured when 

 young and the tree has in consequence produced three 

 distinct heads. It is a very imposing tree, however, 

 to stand beneath, and it is well woi-th a tramp to inspect 

 it. This pine is pictured in " Typical Elms and Other 

 Trees." There are some exceedingly characteristic 

 white pines, although not large trees, on the Pickman 

 estate, Beverly, in the grounds near Hale street, and 

 there are fine white pines on the roadside near the 

 Saltonstall and Ives estates in Lynnfield, within sight 

 of the pond and not far from the hotel. 



Such white pines, more than two hundred and fifty 

 feet high and six feet in diameter, as are recorded by 

 Emerson as growing in New Hampshire and Maine , will 

 probably never be seen in New England again ; and, in 

 Essex county, it is doubtful if pines will ever be allowed 

 to attain the dimensions of those lately cut in George- 

 town. The age of the Georgetown pines could not have 

 been much more than one hundred and twenty-five years 

 when they were felled, for one of the largest trees, cut 

 some years ago, showed about that number of rings of 

 annual growth, when counted by Mr. Sears at the time. 

 It would be safe to say that the Boxford pine is about 

 the same age. The tall pine near the house at the ' ' Do- 

 nation Farm," as it is sometimes called, — the Treadwell 

 estate at Topsfield, belonging to the Essex Agricultural 

 Society, — is about one hundred years old. Aged per- 

 sons living thirty years ago remembered both the 



