Outline history of Utica and vicinity . ng fact that the Osage Orange, (Ma-cliira aurantiaca), native in the southern and southwest-ern part of the United States, and used in the north forhedges, has, on a farm in Deerfield, grown to the heightof a tree and has borne fruit. PLANTS OF LOCAL INTEREST. The people of Utica are tree-lovers, and the variety aswell as number of trees in the city is very great. Manyof the Elms are of remarkable size and beauty, and this istrue as well of those in the surrounding country, noticeablythose atChadwicks. The Lombardy Fop\, [Pc/^ulus nigra,var. Italica),
Outline history of Utica and vicinity . ng fact that the Osage Orange, (Ma-cliira aurantiaca), native in the southern and southwest-ern part of the United States, and used in the north forhedges, has, on a farm in Deerfield, grown to the heightof a tree and has borne fruit. PLANTS OF LOCAL INTEREST. The people of Utica are tree-lovers, and the variety aswell as number of trees in the city is very great. Manyof the Elms are of remarkable size and beauty, and this istrue as well of those in the surrounding country, noticeablythose atChadwicks. The Lombardy Fop\, [Pc/^ulus nigra,var. Italica), was at one time extensively planted, but hasalmost disappeared. Not graceful, but striking in appear-ance, a few specimens are still standing, as those in frontof Mr. Egbert Baggs house, planted in 1806, and the rowon College Hill, Clinton. The city is even too well shadedfor sanitation, and might add to its officers a Foresterwhose business it should be to let in sunlight by judicioustree-trimming. At the same time, when New York and. Saturday (Ilobe ELM. BOTANY. 159 other large cities have recognized the fact that our treesare agents of health, and when their citizens are busy plant-ing trees in their most arid streets, we should congratu-late ourselves that, with us, wise planting is no longer somuch needed as wise pruning. The fathers of Utica wereall tree-planters. The English Elm, the Black Walnut,and other species were introduced and fostered by them. The mathematician, Mr. George R. Perkins, gave muchtime and thought to tree-planting. On the street whichhe laid out, Sunset Avenue, formerly called from him,Perkins Avenue, he personally persuaded the city to pre-serve the great Elm near Faxton Hospital. On the groundsof his home, where his widow still resides, are several fineElms. One of these is 22 feet in circumference above theparting of the roots, 20 feet in circumference six feet abovethe ground, and probably nearly 100 feet high. The Wilson Elm, believed b
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