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Georgetown pines when they were too small for timber, 

 and the Topsfield pine at the time planted. 



There are some fifty white pines in a grove on the 

 same farm, which, I am told b}^ Mr. John Gould, the 

 town clerk and local historian of Topsfield, were planted 

 by Mr. Enos Easty in 1830. They are on the easterly 

 side of the Newburyport turnpike road and many of 

 the trees are nearly seven feet in circumference at five 

 feet above the ground. The average girt would be about 

 six feet for all of the trees. 



There are some curious local names given to pines in 

 Essex County. A "bulled pine" is one, as well as can 

 be ascertained, which, when young, has been injured 

 by cattle browsing in the field where it grew, thus 

 causing the tree to produce an irregular head and 

 become otherwise mis-shapen. Of this sort the great 

 Boxford pine is a mammoth example. A "pumpkin 

 pine" (pronounced punkin) seems to be applied to 

 trees which, growing under certain conditions, have 

 produced a soft wood easily cut and cai-ved, after 

 the nature of the flesh of the pumpkin. 



The trees in the most northerly of the two groves on 

 the border of Wenham pond, on the westerly side 

 of the road near the Waters estate, are nearly all white 

 pines. The trees in the more southerly grove, how- 

 ever, are almost exclusively of the pitch pine (Pinus 

 rigida). This tree is in no way so valuable as the 

 white pine, still it can be made to grow where many 

 trees would fail to endure. This pine is abundant on 

 the road to Swampscott leading from the turnpike. 



The red pine (Pinus resinosa) is a beautiful tree 

 when growing naturally, as it may be seen in Boxford 

 near the swamp beyond Crooked pond. There are 



