Word: elm
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...PUBLIC-SPIRITED Senior has purchased a dozen pairs of English sparrows for the yard, and they will soon be colonized in our elm-trees...
...writer seems to think that trees "from some forest primeval," if transplanted to the burying-ground to-morrow, would give the same pleasure to the citizens of Boston as the Paddock Elms did. I very much doubt it. Would an elm transplanted from Boston Common give as much pleasure to the people of Cambridge as the Washington Elm does? Suppose that Massachusetts were to be pulled down and sold for old bricks, would another aged brick building, if moved to its place, inspire us with the same interest and affection which we now feel towards that venerable pile...
...rush for the wreaths on the elm-tree...