Two Seasons’’ Growth 
(Extract from letter—August 25th, 1927.) 
I planted in my yard in January, 1926, 3 Chinese Elm trees which 
1 bought from you, and they have shown such remarkable growth in two 
growing seasons I thought you might be interested in knowing what they 
would do in this locality. These 3 trees were 4 ft. size when I got them, 
and I cut them back about a foot. 1 measured one of them yesterday and 
found it to be 16 ft. high, 10 ft. spread of the branches, and the trunk 12 
inches in circumference. This tree had had no fertilizer, but was culti¬ 
vated and had some water during the summer. The shape of this tree is 
perfect and I have made no attempt to shape it—except to cut back some of 
the lower branches." 
Signed: Guy T. Robinson, 
Vice-President, 
Robinson Guaranty State Bank and Trust Co. 
Palestine, Texas. 
spring. Our average precipitation is 20 inches per year, although 
in 1924 we received but 9.45 inches. We dug two trees about 27 feet 
high with a trunk diameter of 8 inches early this spring and set them 
out in front of Dr. Horn’s residence. They were not pruned. They 
are both living and have made a little growth. A grove of Chinese 
Elms set out in the County Park on alkali ground where the water 
level is but two feet below the ground have made an excellent growth 
the past two years while other varieties have all died.” 
Mr. W. B. Lanham, chief of the Division of Horticulture, Texas 
Agricultural Experiment Station, says: “The Chinese Elm seems to 
give great promise both for shade and windbreak in West Texas. 
It is growing in many parts of the state, but like the jujube seems to 
be particularly adapted to those portions of the state where it is difficult 
to get fruit trees or good shade trees to grow. It is very drouth- 
resistant, having an extensive surface root system. It is very fast 
growing and easily transplanted.” 
Free From Disease and Insect Pests 
At a meeting of the Southwestern Association of Nurserymen in 
Oklahoma City, in September, 1925, Prof. Locke, of the Woodward 
Experiment Station, exhibited a photograph of a Chinese Elm in 
Pekin, China, that was said to be over two hundred years old and 
four feet in diameter. At the same meeting Mr. Gordon, state nursery 
inspector of Oklahoma, said he had examined many trees in different 
places, and had never seen them affected with any disease or insect 
pest. A year later, September, 1926, the writer asked Mr. Gordon, 
who has had great opportunity to observe Chinese Elms in many 
places, if he still had found no disease or insect pest on them, and he 
answered that he had not. If the eagle eye of a state inspector could 
find none. Oklahoma Elms must be clean. The bark on the young 
trees is as smooth as that of a birch, which perhaps accounts for the 
absence of borers, which so often attack other Elms. A correspondent 
writes us from Washington that he has some Chinese Elms growing 
close to some American Elms, and that his American Elms were 
affected with aphis, while none were on the Chinese. Reports of 
their wonderful growth are now so numerous that we could fill many 
pages with them, but we do want to mention one. It is the two trees 
growing at the home of Mrs. E. J. Beall in Ft. Worth, being the sub¬ 
ject of the illustration on the front cover page of this circular. These 
trees. 35 feet high and 12 inches in diameter, were planted as little 
switches five years ago last spring. About the same time we planted 
some five-dollar Sycamores for Mrs. Beall on her sidewalk. The 
Sycamores today are not more than one-third the size of the Elms. 
Mention is made above of the ease with which it is transplanted 
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