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others on the estate, were planted by Mr. Pickering 

 Dodge, who has been previously referred to as con- 

 tributing greatly to the sylvan adornment of North 

 Salem. 



The senior of our physicians, Dr. George A. Perkins, 

 an excellent botanist, and, even in his earlier years 

 having a scientific turn of mind, assisted Mr. Dodge in 

 laying out the grounds and allotting the trees their 

 places. This occurred in 1837, and the doctor has ac- 

 tually lived to be able to walk beneath the shade 

 of these trees for fully one-third of a century, — a good 

 refutation of the assertion that we do not plant trees 

 for our own advantage, but wholly for the benefit of 

 others, as some writers would have us believe. 



There are a great number of European larches on 

 the Fay estate near the floating bridge, planted with 

 other trees, as an experiment in economic forestry, by 

 the late Mr. Eichard Fay. This plantation has now 

 every appearance of a long standing growth, and has 

 been the subject of papers on forestry and for discus- 

 sions at public meetings. 



The most famous European larches in this neighbor- 

 hood are those on "Larch Row," in Wenham, and on 

 the estate and before the old house, formerly the farm 

 and residence of Col. Timothy Pickering. The emi- 

 nent botanist and a grandson of Timothy Pickering, the 

 late Dr. Charles Pickering, informed me that these 

 trees were imported from England in the early part of 

 this century. They were perhaps five feet high and 

 were packed in boxes, and were planted at the time 

 where they now stand. They have remained like sen- 

 tinels for eighty years, conspicuous in the landscape, 

 and, although now somewhat beyond their prime, they 



