The biggest sycamores are: 
24 feet ; 
18 feet, 4 inches ; 
16 feet ; 
14 feet, 4 inches ; 
Wheatley. 
St. James. 
Northport. 
Hempstead (quite certainly planted) . 
Of the tulip-trees reported, only one is large: that at Great 
Neck, which is eighteen feet in circumference, and obviously de- 
caying. Unfortunately it has suffered from the effects of unskilled 
“ tree surgeons ” in the past, and this treatment has undoubtedly 
hastened its decay. 
Large black walnuts have been reported as follows : 
15 feet, 10 inches ; 
15 feet, 9 inches ; 
15 feet, 6 inches ; 
15 feet ; 
14 feet, 10 inches ; 
Cedarhurst. 
Mill Neck. 
East Norwich. 
Valley Stream. 
Glen Cove. 
All of these are much smaller than the black walnut that 
stood, until a few years ago, on the William Cullen Bryant place 
at Roslyn, and was reported as twenty-nine feet in circum- 
ference. 
The largest red maples, of which only a few records were 
submitted, are as follows : 
14 feet ; Sag Harbor. 
12 feet, 7 inches ; Manhasset. 
11 feet, 3 inches ; Greenport. 
11 feet; Woodbury. 
The only lindens reported are all from the eastern end of the 
Island, the largest being: 
15 feet, 3 inches ; Orient. 
12 feet, 9 inches ; between Sag Harbor and Southampton. 
The American Elm, which is native at only a few places, all 
on the north shore of the Island, and mostly from the western 
end, netted the following: 
15 feet, 11 inches 
15 feet, 2 inches 
14 feet, 7 inches 
13 feet, 7 inches 
13 feet, 6 inches 
13 feet, 2 inches 
Plandome. 
Oyster Bay. 
Whitestone. 
Cold Spring Harbor. 
Easthampton (surely planted). 
Glen Cove. 
