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1841. — Sketches of the Life and Adventures of Moses Van Campen. 

 By John Niles Hubbard. Dansville, 1841. 

 The writer describes the Genesee flats and country beyond, with here 

 and there a beautiful grove, orchards of apple and peach trees, and wide and 

 flourishing corn fields. 



1842 — Catalogue of Plants and their Time of Flowering in and 

 about the City of Rochester, for the year 1841. By Dr. 

 Chester Dewey. Fifty-fifth Ann. Rept. Regents of the 

 University, State of New York. Albany, 1842. 



1843. — Flora of the State of New York. By John Torrey, M. D. 

 Albany, 1843. 

 Frequent mention is made of rare plants found in this vicinity, with 

 names of the collectors, and other particulars. 



1843. — Botanical Calendar kept at Rochester by Dr. Chester Dewey. 

 Fifty-sixth Ann. Rept. Regents of the University, State of 

 New York. Albany, 1843. 



1843. — Natural History of New York, Part V. Agriculture, Vols. 

 I, II. By E. Emmons. Albany, 1843. 



The author, describing Plate III, A View from Mt. Hope, says: "The 

 city appears in the back part of the middle ground. In the open fields stand 

 the superb elms of the deep and rich clay soil peculiar to this district. They 

 are the only remains of the great and noble forests which have fallen before 

 the axe of civilization in the last half century. They run up an unbroken 

 shaft near one hundred feet, where they at once form a heavy dense head. 

 They are in strict contrast with the elms of a second growth in the valleys of 

 the Mohawk and Hudson, whose trunks are thickly covered with slender 

 limbs, and their heads formed of long, pendulous branches. 



" For magnificent specimens of the elm the valleys of the Genesee and 

 the Black river in Jefferson county are surpassed by no other parts of the 

 world. Hundreds of elms may be seen in either of these sections of country 

 exceeding by far the famous Pittsfield Elm in Berkshire, Mass." 



1848. — The Meadow Park at Geneseo. By A. J. Downing. The 

 Horticulturist, Vol. Ill, No. 4. Albany, 1848. 

 The writer describes the great oak, " Big Tree", under which the first 

 treaty was signed between the Indians and the first settlers of Geneseo. At 

 the time of writing, 1848, the old tree was healthy and green. He also speaks 

 of other magnificent specimens of oak and elm trees to be seen in the Meadow 

 Park, and of the remains of a former rival of the " Big Tree". Of the latter 

 he says : " Not far from it stands the stump of a contemporary, destroyed a 

 few seasons before by the elements. The annual rings of its trunk tell the 

 story of nine hundred years' growth." 



1851. — Phelps and Gorham Purchase. By O. Turner. Rochester, 1851. 

 The author speaks of the magnificent forest trees of the valley of the 



