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Notes (historical):
Ulmus americana, near Milford in New Hampshire. The photograph was taken on October 5, 1923. It was 95 feet tall, and the girth of the trunk was 6 feet. E.H. Wilson distinguished between various types of Ulmus americana in his book Aristocrats of the Trees. He felt that “no other American tree exhibits so much variety as the American elm,” and divided this tree into “three distinct types,” with many variations in between. While M-1 seems to be comparable to the first type he discussed, with “a round-topped, shapely mass,” M-5 is probably closer to the slender third type, which he likened to an "old-fashioned wine glass" with sparser branches (E.H. Wilson, Aristocrats of the Trees [Boston: Stratford, 1930], pp. 81-82).
