there is no troublesome drip problem, for the 
water on the leaves runs down the branches to 
join the trunk and thence courses to the ground. 
The rate of growth of the Augustine Ascending 
Elm is unusually rapid. This makes the tree very 
economical. Young small-caliper trees sent to the 
Park Department of Baltimore in 1949 are now 
from 3 to 4 inches in diameter and thus show an 
increase in size (i.e., in volume) of 5 to 7 times 
in three growing seasons! 
USES, CLAIMS AND TESTIMONIES 
CIVIC 
In August, 1952, the Assistant Park Forester 
of the Department of Recreation and Parks of 
the beautiful city of Baltimore wrote: “A// in all 
I can say that this is a very satisfactory tree for 
street and boulevard planting and I am planning 
on using more of them this fall where block 
planting is required.” Baltimore has had very 
good results by setting 114 to 114 inch caliper 
Augustine Ascending Elms directly out on the 
parkways. 
The Department of Parks of the City of New 
York, on the other hand, prefers to line out 
smaller Augustine Ascending Elms to grow them 
on to a 21% to 3 inch caliper before transplanting 
them to the parkways. The Director of Mainte- 
nance and Operations of that Department wrote 
to us in September, 1952, of the first shipment of 
Augustine Ascending Elms at that time growing 
in their Ricker’s Island Nursery: “The two hun- 
dred trees, 4 to 6 feet in height, purchased in 
1949 and planted on December 20, 1949, now 
average 14 to 16 feet high. The two hundred 
trees, 6 to 7 feet, purchased last spring and 
planted April 15, 1952, now measure 8 to 10 
feet.” 
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