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America's Atlantic white cedar swamps

Tree Notes | July 30th 2007 by Genevieve Netz

Brief history of the Atlantic white cedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides When the first European settlers came to North America, they found a new-world member of the cypress family. It grew densely, often in pure stands, in the swamplands of the Atlantic c read more

The Waverly (Waverley) Oaks

Tree Notes | July 11th 2007 by Genevieve Netz

Some of the biggest white oaks ever known in AmericaThe Waverly (or Waverley) Oaks were a group of very large and very old white oaks that grew near Boston, in a corner where the towns of Watertown, Belmont and Waltham meet. I use the past tense beca read more