An official on the Glencoe, Illinois Park District wrote in 
September, 1950: 
I have recently inspected the trees and find that 
they have adjusted themselves very well to their new 
location, and have noted that there is normal growth 
of approximately 3-inches on these trees during their 
first year (this reduced growth is normal in the year 
following transplanting a young tree). 
The same official wrote in July, 1951: 
I made a personal inspection of them today and 
find that they are in excellent condition and are show- 
ing every indication of a better than average growth 
during the last two growing seasons. They were 
planted in quite heavy soil and showed no signs of 
transplanting shock, and as of this date have not 
been bothered with cankerworm or other pests of 
which we had an abundance this spring. 
The above quotations are submitted as evidence to support 
our many claims for the Augustine Ascending Elm; the sections 
of the letters given are printed without deletions or alterations, 
and the complete originals can be inspected at our Chicago office. 
SUITABILITY 
At the beginning of his chapter on “Trees of the Upright 
Habit” in Aristocrats of the Trees, Ernest H. Wilson, the late 
Keeper of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, wrote: 
Trees of the upright habit have a decided value 
in garden landscaping. They relieve low monotonous 
lines of vegetation and enhance by contrast the 
beauty and characteristics of other and different 
types of growth. They add grace and lightness when 
sparsely associated with round-topped trees and they 
may be associated to advantage with buildings. Some, 
like the Lombardy Poplar, are well adapted for 
planting in narrow streets or by bridges, or walls 
where they tower to excellent advantage. There 
may be an air of austerity or even rigid sternness 
about them but one upright branched tree stirs the 
emotions much in the same manner as does a fine 
church spire. Rightly placed and rightly used they 
are most useful in garden art. 
If Mr. Wilson could write this chapter today instead of in 1930, 
it doubtless would include among the American fastigiated trees 
the Augustine Ascending Elm; and the paragraph quoted above 
would well describe this new Elm’s virtues and uses. 
The Augustine Ascending Elm is suited for street and 
avenue planting, generally, because of its health, rapid growth 
and strength; and, particularly, because a line of these trees 
will grow uniformly and develop quite a similar, neatly-outlined 
shapes to form a regular, high surface of foliage; because it does 
not have wide over-hanging branches, the Augustine Ascending 
Elm does not throw such an extended dense shadow as will kill 
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