The Lake City Elm 
VILLAGE OF HAZEN 
Hazen, No. Dak. 
February 26, 1934. 
Mr. Bj. Loss, President, 
Lake City Nurseries, Inc., 
Lake City, Minnesota. 
Dear Mr. Loss: 
We thought you might be interested in learn¬ 
ing something about the trees which you sold 
the Park Board of this village in the spring of 
1932, and in particular, the Lake City elms. We 
think that the growth these trees have made is 
remarkable, especially in view of the fact that 
the year 1932 was quite dry, and that 1933, 
excepting for the spring, we exceedingly dry. 
We were not so much concerned about the 
Chinese elms because we know from experience 
that they would do well in this climate, but 
your Lake City elm was a new tree with us 
and we did not know whether this would thrive 
so far west and so far north. We used your 
Lake City elms as boulevard trees, planting 
sixty or seventy of them along the boulevard, 
and with one exception, every tree is alive and 
growing. These were six to eight foot trees 
when we bought them, and they now stand a 
good strong ten and one-half feet, in height. 
The pleasing thing about them is that every 
tree is uniform, and they make a most pleasing 
appearance. 
As you know, or may surmise, the depression 
has made it difficult for our park board to en¬ 
gage in further tree plantings, but we hope 
that as soon as things loosen up a bit that we 
may be able to carry on further plantings and 
we want to assure you that you will have our 
