Archive image from page 64 of Descriptive catalogue of the Reading. Descriptive catalogue of the Reading Nursery descriptivecatal1877read Year: 1877 CATALOGUE OF BEADING NURSERY, MASS.—J. W. MANNING, PROPRIETOR. 61 This is the common name of a graceful, often drooping branched tree, naturally found only alon<r streams, 40 to 00 feet, high. On large trees the bark is dark and very rough; higher up come black and reddish curls or Hakes, then come thinner curls of reddish and white bark, flut- tering in the breezes. Among these thin curls and farther up the trunk, is a pure white bark that Is
Archive image from page 64 of Descriptive catalogue of the Reading. Descriptive catalogue of the Reading Nursery descriptivecatal1877read Year: 1877 CATALOGUE OF BEADING NURSERY, MASS.—J. W. MANNING, PROPRIETOR. 61 This is the common name of a graceful, often drooping branched tree, naturally found only alon<r streams, 40 to 00 feet, high. On large trees the bark is dark and very rough; higher up come black and reddish curls or Hakes, then come thinner curls of reddish and white bark, flut- tering in the breezes. Among these thin curls and farther up the trunk, is a pure white bark that Is very conspicuous, either standing alone or in a collection of trees, while the grizzly roughness of the trunk below is very odd. Price, 5 to 8 ft., 50 to 75c. THE PEARSONS ELM, growing on land of Benjamin Penrsom, in Byfield Parish, New- bury, Mass., is a specimen that we may all take courage by. January 2fith, 1877, we measured it at 3 feet from the ground, pressing the tape into the deep depressions (some of them 3 feet deep), and found it 42 feet in circumference; allowing the tape to rest on the ridge at same point, itwas'27 feet around. At 6 feet from the ground, the smallest place, it was 18 feet. At the expansion of the immense limbs at 12 feet it was estimated 30 teet in circumference. The height must be near 100 feet, the spread of branches was 118 feet. The age is not over 100 years. It contains at least 12 cords of wood. We know of various American White Elms that are nearly as large as the above. Joshua Gowing, of Wilmington, Mass., has an Elm over 16 feet in circumference at 2 feet from ground, 108 feet°spread of toji, 80 feet high and must contain 9 cords or more of wood. It is less than 100 years old and growing rapidly. Samuel Gowing. of Wilmington, ]\Iass., has an Elm of about equal size of the latter. There are twoEnglish Elms standing in Essex Street, Boston, 18 feet in circumference. (Let planters of trees have faith ; the future is big by the aid of the
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