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THE TREES
OF SOUTHOLD
FIRST EDITION
October 2000
Compiled by Robert G. Kassner
Member, Southold Town Tree Committee
Manuscript typed by Martha A.Jones
Secretary to the Tree Committee
Cover Photo by Elaine Taylor
Tuliptree,Wells Avenue, Southold
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I am so pleased that the Southold Town Tree Committee has
published information about the many and varied trees of
Southold. These trees, so often taken for granted, contribute
to the beauty of Southold Town and they are a part of our
proud historic heritage.
This book is a tool we can use to expand public appreciation
of the value of our environment as we continue our commit-
ment to preservation. Read it, talk about it to your friends,
read it again. I know you will find it helpful in opening your
eyes to the beauty and the utility of the trees around us.
Jean W. Cochran
Supervisor,Town of Southold
Louisa P. Evans, Town Justice
William D. Moore, Councilman
Brian G. Murphy, Councilman
Craig A. Richter, Councilman
John M. Romanelli, Councilman
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To all Southolders
who nominated trees for this edition.
To Martha Jones
who typed, edited, and assisted in numerous ways.
To Edward Dart
who in 1989, compiled the first inventory of Southold trees.
To Antonia Booth
who was instrumental in the formation of the
Southold Town Tree Committee.
To Paul Stoutenburgh
who assisted in the review of the manuscript.
To Dr. Charles Kozora,
Superintendent, Greenport Public Schools,
for permission to use material contained in the booklet
"Greenport Nature Study, 1971 - 1972."
To the Long Island Horticultural Society, Inc.
for permission to use material contained in the booklets,
"The Trees of Long Island" by George Peters 1952, 1973 and
supplement of 1963; and "Great Trees of Long Island"
by the Long Island Horticultural Society.
PREFACE
This tree survey is the culmination of many years of effort
by the Southold Town Tree Committee and its former
chairman, Edward Dart.
The purpose of this survey is to create a permanent
record of the largest trees in town, as many will not survive
into the future. It takes hundreds of years for some trees to
mature, yet a brief moment to cut them down. Future genera-
tions will be able to use this data to analyze weather, urban
development and climatic conditions.
Many of the trees living today were witness to historical
events: the colonial period, the Revolutionary War, the Civil
War and other significant happenings in Southold's history.
I hope this beginning effort will inspire future revisions.
I am sure many will say, "I know of a tree that is larger than
that listed in the survey." In this way this survey will compete
with itself to become more comprehensive and complete in
the years to come.
My best wishes to all who appreciate trees as living
monuments to history and to those who made this monograph
possible.
Robert G. Kassner
Southold, New York
October, 2000
I like trees because they seem more resigned
to the way they have to live
than other things do.
-WILLA SIBERT GATHER
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Tulip Tree (largest tree), Wells Ave. , Southold........................ front cover
Sycamore (largest sycamore), Ackerly Pond Lane ...................................4
Canker Gall, Horton Lane .....................................................................6
Lopped tree, Main Bayview ................................................................. 10
Old Syc,Youngs Avenue ................................................................. 11, 12
LindenTrees ........................................................................................25
Ed Dart,Arbor Day 1992.....................................................................28
Notable Public Tree Collections ...........................................................36
CONTENTS
Introduction......................................................................................... 1
EarlyHistory ....................................................................................... 4
The Formation of Southold's Forests.................................................... 5
The Introduction of Trees New to Southold......................................... 7
Unique and Rare Assemblages of Trees................................................. 8
Southold's Biggest Trees ..................................................................... 11
Charts of the Biggest Trees ................................................................. 13
The Five Largest Copper Beeches....................................................... 26
The Five Largest American Elms ........................................................ 26
The Five Largest White Oaks ............................................................. 26
The Five Largest Black Oaks .............................................................. 27
The Five Largest Tuliptrees ................................................................ 27
The Five Largest Silver Maples........................................................... 27
The Five Largest Sycamores ............................................................... 28
Scientific Name Index ........................................................................ 29
Common Name Index ....................................................................... 31
Bibliography ...................................................................................... 33
Southold Town Tree Committee......................................................... 35
Map of Notable Public Tree Collections............................................. 36
INTRODUCTION
Trees have always been important to Southold's story. Some fourteen years
after the settlement of the Town,the"freemen of Southold"realized that
continuing the unlicensed and unlimited destruction of Southold's timber would
soon result in scarcity. On October 9, 1654,they passed stringent laws against
cutting down trees.
Some of Southold's early settlers were merchants. They plied their trade
between New England and the West Indies, finding a ready market for wood
and wood products like barrel staves. Other residents were shipwrights who
"had first to build their own homes,"and often built neighbor's homes, using
the wood from local forests. Further protective legislation was passed by the
Town in 1660 against the wanton cutting down of trees.
Many years later,when the Southold Town Tree Committee was formed
by resolution of the Town Board on September 22, 1987, one of the goals of
its members was a town-wide inventory of trees. Now, as Robert G. Kassner
successfully brings that task to its impressive conclusion, it may be fitting to
mention some arboreal highlights from Southold's 360 plus years:
In Orient, on the north side of the Main Road, is the enormous button-
wood tree (American Sycamore),said to have been standing at the time of the
American Revolution. Augustus Griffin's journal describes Village Lane in
Orient in the eighteenth century as a forest of heavy oak and hickory trees,
through which a path led from the main highway toward the wharf at the
busy waterfront. On that same path can still be seen a giant copper beech,
brought home and planted by Captain Marcus Brown from one of his trips to
England early in the nineteenth century.
That same century found several philanthropists planting public trees for
future generations. One was N. Hubbard Cleveland of Southold,whose home
was across the street from St. Patrick's church. Hubbard noted, "the row of
24 Elm and Maple trees were set in front of my place in March 1860."
Many more elm trees were planted by Israel Peck. He had an extensive
nursery on the original home lot of John Booth near Southold's Presbyterian
church. In 1840, Peck married an Orient girl,Nancy Halsey Glover, descen-
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dent of a first settler, shipwright Charles Glover. They lived with their six
daughters in a handsome house named "Oak Lawn". Peck planted both sides
of the Main Road with elms that shaded the hamlet for decades until the
hurricane of 1938 uprooted many of them and Dutch Elm disease destroyed
the rest.
In 1875, F.L. Judd bought the stately Southold Hotel at the corner of
Youngs Avenue and Main Road. In addition to landscaping the hotel grounds,
Judd planted hardy Maple trees along both sides of maple Lane.
A little later, Joseph Parker Wickham planted graceful trees around the
Presbyterian church in Mattituck. That hamlet was already well known as the
home of the large "Kidd Tree" near Mattituck Inlet, so named for the pirate,
William Kidd. Both Peconic and Orient were visited in spring time by those
who enjoyed driving in their carriages through drifts of fallen cherry blos-
soms. Around this time it became popular to remember noted residents by
planting a tree in their name.
The Southold High School classes of 1900 and 1906 both planted trees
honoring their principal on Arbor Day. In 1919,Southold Savings Bank presi-
dent, Henry W. Prince, a Civil War veteran, was honored by having a cherry
tree planted at his"home place"for his 80th birthday. Some other well-known
local trees were the large ones that used to mark Horton's Point for coastal
steamers. Pine seeds planted on a sand hill near the old Great Western Mill in
Southold resulted in such dense growth that the entire area came to be called
Pine Grove (now Pine Neck). A giant oak in Peconic on the Vail farm was once
the second largest tree in New York State, appearing on many post-cards.
Over the years, there have been many sad tales of tree slaughter, tree
topping, and tree mugging, both by criminal individuals and by public agen-
cies,but one likes to think that the positive outweighs the negative,tree-wise.
The Southold Town Tree Committee under its long-time chairman Edward D.
Dart, brought back annual Arbor Day celebrations to our local schools. Join-
ing the Elm Research Institute, the committee began a small nursery of dis-
ease-resistant American Liberty elms on Dart/Kaser land. It has planted hun-
dreds of trees town-wide and in 1996 instituted a Memorial Tree Program
through which over one hundred residents have memorialized their loved
ones with trees. A handsome sculpture and memorial tree plaque by artist Bennett
S. Blackburn, commissioned by the Committee, hangs in our Town Hall.
Nominated by this historian,Greenport Village achieved"Tree City"sta-
tus in 1992, largely through the efforts of Lillian White and Gail Horton. In
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1986, only one of sixteen trees on the New York State Historic Tree Register
was in Southold—the aforementioned Orient Sycamore. Again,this historian
had the pleasure of nominating another of our local sycamores to the state
register. As reported by Michael Winerip in The New York Times of Septem-
ber 11, 1990, the tree, at the old doctor's house on Ackerly Pond Lane, was
accepted. Now Southold has two historic trees on the state register. And
now, in addition to its many other accomplishments, Southold Town's Tree
Committee has published this fine register of local trees.
Antonia Booth
Southold Town Historian
"The best time to plant a tree
is twenty years ago —
the second best time is now. -ANON
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EARLY HISTORY
Fossils disclose that many warm climate trees such as Sequoia, Ccamphor,
Cinnamon, Laurel, Magnolia, Eucalyptus, and Fig flourished thousands
of years ago on Long Island, together with more temperate zone species of
Oak, Mmaple, Sassafras, Willow, and Poplar, which were the forerunners of
our modern tree flora.
About twenty thousand years ago, this forest was destroyed by glaciers
coming down from the north as the ice age began; and for a hundred centu-
ries the glaciers reshaped the Island, burying the ancient soils under their ter-
minal moraines along the north shore and creating the outwash plains of the
south shore.It was only when the glaciers melted for the last time,perhaps ten
thousand years ago, that Southold's modern botanical history began.
Many tree stumps have been recorded having been several feet below the
low tide level in the marginal „g
salt marshes, indicating a
slow subsidence since the re- d y?
cession of the last glacier.
Following the ice age
came the pioneer arctic
plants such as the Dwarf `
Arctic Willow. As climate
moderated, more hardy
plants crept in from the ,
south until the entire area :
became covered with a bo-
real flora similar to Labrador ,
today. However, this flora ``
could not survive. As the
climate became warmer, The largest Sycamore in Southold(on Ackerly Pond Road)
southern species appeared is on the New York State Register of Historic Trees.
and crowded out the north-
ern plants. This process of changing forest composition has continued to this day.
One can see evidence of plant successions at the present time in Southold.
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THE FORMATION OF SOUTHOLD'S FORESTS
n interesting evidence of the continuing south-to-north migration of plants
along the Atlantic Coast and its effects on the flora of Long Island is the
occurrence of rear-guard plants termed botanically as "relicts." These are
single individuals or small groups of a tree species essentially belonging to a
more northern plant zone and which are found in a few favorably cool, moist
situations. These isolated examples typical of a Canadian or New England
mountain forest no doubt are the lingering remains of a post-glacial forest
that has been displaced by those species more compatible with our compara-
tively milder climate.
A striking instance of a relict species on Long Island is the Red Spruce,
common in the Canadian Life Zone, but which until recently grew naturally
on Long Island only in one small group on Gid's Island at Orient. Forty or
fifty large trees were cut down in 1880 and four trees still existed in 1920 but
fires have destroyed them all since then.
Another example of a "left behind" species is the Paper Birch, a.k.a.
Canoe Birch,a common Adirondack tree,but which is only found in Southold
as scattered individuals in cool, moist areas of Moore's Woods, Greenport.
Seedlings at Greenport are practically non-existent so we may soon be seeing
the natural disappearance of another northern plant from Southold. Other
northern species, such as White Pine, Hemlock and Sugar Maple, are native
trees in Southold but do not properly belong to the dominant coastal plain
type of vegetation. These are also relict trees, and although they successfully
grow under the ministering hand of man they, like the Paper Birch, do not
reproduce well. It will be only a short time,geologically speaking,before they
too will vanish from the Southold scene if their fate is simply a matter of
nature's processes.
The occurrence of both northern and southern tree species springs from
the fact that Long Island is a meeting ground of two biological life zones. The
Carolinian or Upper Austral Zone, as defined by temperature limits, reaches
its northern boundary in the western part of Long Island, whereas the
Alleghenian or Transition Zone extends from eastern Long Island northward.
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Silver Maple on the grounds of Academy Printing Services,Inc.,Hortons Lane, Southold.
Irritants from insects, mites, nematodes,fungi and bacteria initiate canker gall formation.
The result is a richness and complexity of plant species despite the extreme
geological simplicity of the Island. When one realizes that Long Island has no
significant difference in latitude, no appreciable variation in elevations, no
limestone soils,no noticeable rock outcrops, no heavy soils, no gorges and no
large rivers, and is isolated from the mainland, it is surprising that the flora of
the Island is as diverse as it is. Because of a moderate climate and well distrib-
uted ample rainfall, many northern and southern plants, including our vine-
yards, grow almost side by side in Southold and on Long Island.
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THE INTRODUCTION OF
TREES NEW TO SOUTHOLD
When the first colonists came to Southold it was entirely covered by
irgin forest. Progressively,the land became transformed as the forests
disappeared under the cumulative impact of agriculture, grazing, fires, roads,
public improvements, and homes. Today the situation has reached a point
where natural woodland areas have nearly disappeared. But the clearing of
our native forests and the extermination of tree species by man has been partly
compensated for by the introduction of foreign plants.
The loss of the Chestnut due to the introduction of the chestnut blight,
and the American Elm due to Dutch Elm disease, were major plant disasters
and eliminated from the local scene two of our finest native trees. But man in
turn imported the Black Locust,not originally native,but now an integral part
of Southold's landscape. About 1700, Captain John Sands, of Sands Point,
brought this species from Virginia. Another introduced tree which has be-
come thoroughly naturalized in Southold is the Ailanthus, long known as the
Tree-of-Heaven and much more recently as the"tree that grows in Brooklyn."
A much maligned, weedy tree, it nevertheless serves a real purpose in giving
shade and greenness in grim areas where little else will grow.
The real impetus to the horticultural use of exotic trees and shrubs was
provided by Robert Prince. In 1732 he established the"Linnean Botanic Gar-
den",in Flushing, a nursery where he tried new varieties,creating great popular
interest in plant culture. So famous was this 80-acre nursery that when the
British troops entered Flushing in 1777, General Howe ordered a guard to
protect it from depredation. This nursery is credited with introducing to
America, among other trees, the Lombardy Poplar, Cedar of Lebanon, Atlas
Cedar, Royal Paulownia, Copper Beech, and several Asiatic Magnolias.
The Bloodgood and Parsons Nurseries,in Flushing, were responsible for
the introduction of many Oriental species of trees to the United States. The
first Japanese Maple was brought to Long Island in 1841; other new trees
were the Trifoliate Orange, the Chinese Larch, Ginkgo, and a number of
Magnolias.
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UNIQUE AND RARE ASSEMBLAGES
OF TREES FOUND IN SOUTHOLD
4c ARSHAMOMAQUE WETLANDS comprise approximately 241 acres of
wetlands and wooded uplands, located west of Moore's Woods and east of
Hashamomuck Pond. This is a rare assemblage of plant species composed
primarily of Swamp Cottonwood (Populus heterophylla), Swamp White Oak
(Quercus bicolor), and Pin Oak (Quercus palustris). Known as a Swamp
White Oak/Swamp Cottonwood Community,this grouping of common south-
ern trees is the only one of its kind on Long Island and may be the only
example in the entire state of New York.
!,, MOORE'S WOODS was given to the Moore family in 1640 by a grant
from King James, and thus, got its name. Around 1870, Mr. William Moore
decided to drain Silver Lake, as around this time Moore's Woods and the
surrounding area created a dismal swamp, and a great insect problem. At that
time he hired laborers from New York City to dig ditches to drain Silver Lake
for the purpose of drying up the woods and relieving the insect problem.
Unknown to him,Silver Lake is spring fed,and thus impossible to drain. This
attempt was known as Moore's Folly. Today this 200-acre parcel of land is
owned by the Village of Greenport and is used as a water shed.
The predominant trees in the Oak forest in Moore's Woods represent a
relatively young stand of Oaks. There are two major families found in this
area: The Black Oak family and the White Oak family. Oak trees made a
valuable contribution to the early Greenport economy, being used for home
construction, fences, grist mills, churches and schools. A large number of
them were turned into seagoing craft, from which a major maritime industry
developed.
In the understory of the forest,the shrubs and lower vegetation are more
luxuriant than that found in the older part of Moore's Woods. This is because
the upper branches of the younger trees have not yet developed a thick canopy
of branches and leaves, thus allowing sunlight to reach the forest floor pro-
moting understory growth.
There are several vernal ponds evolved from shallow depressions in the
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land left during the last glacial period. Underlying deposits of clay and humus
temporarily enable the pond to hold water from winter run-offs and spring
rains, hence the name "vernal", from the Latin for spring.
Often as summer progresses,it is a major source of fresh water for water-
loving flowering plants and trees. The Red or Swamp Maple (Acer rubrum),
Spice Bush (Lindera benzoin), Liverworts, and Sphagnum Moss are all
examples of moisture-loving plants found in this wet area.
You can also see the remains of a stand of Gray Birch(Betula populifolia).
These are the common native "White" Birch of Long Island and are small
trees with dull grayish-white bark with bright orange inner bark. The Gray Birch
is one of the first trees to invade open areas and require full sun. They will be
quickly replaced by more shade tolerant species,such as Maple and Tuliptree.
These will eventually be part of the climax ecosystem, in which species alter
conditions so that their offspring will thrive. The governing factor here is toler-
ance of shade. Beech, Oak and Hickory represent the climax species at Moore's
Woods. Beech trees (Fagus grandifolia),are one of the climax trees of this area;
one Beech has been aged to be 150 years old and represents the oldest tree in
Moore's Woods. Of relatively slow growth, this tree can attain ages of 300 to
400 years.
Tuliptrees (Yellow Poplar) are tall straight forest trees with gray-brown,
ridged and furrowed bark. About 65 million years ago (at the close of the
Cretaceous Period) the Tuliptree was among the first plants to develop an
enclosed seed, giving rise to today's modern plant form, the angiosperm. In-
crement borings have shown the Tuliptrees in Moore's Woods to be only 40-
50 years old, but already they are the tallest found there. Upon maturity they
may reach a height of 80-150 feet with a girth of almost 17 feet.
STATE PARK, ORIENT, discussed by Roy Latham in a botanical journal'
in 1917 is a peninsula connected at the easterly end with the main body of
Orient and extends in a westerly direction for approximately three miles be-
tween Gardiner's Bay on the south and Little Bay, Eagle Neck channel and
Peconic Bay on the north. The peninsula terminates on the west in a sandy
spit known as Long Beach bar. The Long Beach Bar Lighthouse, built in
1870, was located on this bar. Because of erosion, it now is situated by itself
off the west end of the bar. Locally, it's known as the Bug Light.
1.The Flora of the Town of Southold,Long Island,and Gardiner's Island by Stewart H.Bunham and Roy
A.Latham,Torreya,Volume 17,No.7 p. 111 July 1917.
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Parallel with the Gardiner's Bay shore on the south is a higher level
of beach sand and gravel. Located in this area on the higher ground are
found Post Oak, Black Oak, Pitch Pine and Red Cedar. This area supports
two rare and globally unique forests, a maritime Oak forest and a maritime
Red Cedar forest. The Red Cedar here, especially where it is under the
influence of the strong sea winds, forms a growth of unusual interest.
Cedar shrubs/trees of only three to six feet in height have a circumference of ten
feet and more. Regrettably the park builders trimmed and thinned them
severely, thus allowing winter gales to blow through, destroying the natural
protective barrier. IVA-
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Lopped Osage-Orange, Dart Farm,Main Bayview, Southold.
In colonial days, young shoots from trees were partly cut
and bent to form fences and boundary lines.
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SOUTHOLD'S BIGGEST TREES
n determining the scope of this tree survey, it was decided to include
both native and exotic trees. It has become increasingly difficult to deter-
mine whether a particular tree is native or was introduced by man. Elms,
Sycamores and other species such as White Pine and Hemlock have been
planted for so many years that the origin of these species is open to question.
When it is considered that the total number of tree species native to the whole
of New York State is about one hundred and sixty (of which twenty-three are
Hawthorns and seven are Willows), it is apparent that Southold has, for its
size, an unusually rich and varied representation of trees. Also contained in
this native tree list are several woody species that in form are on the border-
line between a shrub and a tree. In cases where specimens of these shrubby
trees have been found in Southold to have taken an arborescent form, they
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This photograph of"The Old Sycamore"was taken at the turn of the twentieth
century at the head of Southold Town Creek, close to where the original landing
from Connecticut was made.
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have been shown in this list. Thus, plants usually recognized as shrubs, such
as Sumac and Shrub Oak, are included in this list because certain vigorous or
old individual plants have definitely attained tree form. Southold can boast of
some state and world champions.
The largest Norway Maple in New York State, 16' 3" in circumference,
was growing in Browns Hill Burying Ground at Orient, where the first En-
glish settlers of eastern Long Island are buried. This maple may have been
brought from England and planted in this cemetery in the mid 1600's. How-
ever, due to heartrot, its exact age could not be determined. This tree no
longer survives.
The old Sycamore in Orient, known as "Old Syc", measuring 14' 10" in
circumference, is marked by a plaque mentioning that it stood there when
Revolutionary volunteers left for war on July 4, 1776.
A world champion Poison Sumac, measuring 3' 1",when last surveyed in
1972, was growing
on Robins Island,
together with a 1'4"
Elderberry. Both
are world and state
champions. The
largest tree in
town, with a cir-
cumference of 18
feet,is the Tuliptree
on Wells Avenue.
A view 100 years later, as the "Old Sycamore"
still stands watch over Southold Town Creek.
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THE BIGGEST TREES OF ALL SPECIES REPORTED
GROWING IN THE TOWN OF SOUTHOLD
Reported in 1999 - 2000
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circum£/Taken at
Weeping Beech Fagus sylvatica (pendula) 1513" -416" Bay Ave., Greenport
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 14'6" -4'6" Bay Ave., Greenport
Northern Catalpa Caltapa speciosa 918"-416" Front St., Greenport
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1614" -416" Main St.,Southold
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Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1110" -416" Main St., Southold
Japanese Maple Acer palmatum 618"- 112" Main St., Southold
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1110"-416" Main St., Southold
Sycamore Platanus occidentalis 16'0"-416" Ackerly Pond La.,Southold
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum 1610"-T6" Peconic La., Peconic
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica(cuprea) 1115"-416" Horton La., Southold
Weeping Willow Salix babylonica 1416"-4' Village La., Orient
Tuliptree Liriodendron tuplipifera 151" -416" Village La., Orient
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circum£lTaken at
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1418"-316" Village La., Orient
Weeping Beech Fagus sylvatica (pendula) 1512"-416" Village La., Orient
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1317"-4'6" Village La., Orient
Grey Birch Betula populifolia 910" -416" Village La., Orient
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum 1610"-416" Peconic La., Peconic
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 15'6"-416" Peconic La., Peconic
Royal Paulownia Paulownia tomentosa 1510"-316" Main Bayview Rd., Southold
(Empress Tree)
Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera 1810" -416" Wells Ave.,Southold
Sycamore Platanus occidentalis 14110" -416" Village La./Main Rd., Orient
Chinese Chestnut Castanea mollissima 3110"- 116" Teepee Trail, Southold
Japanese Maple Acer palmatum 516"-014" Teepee Trail, Southold
Sycamore Platanus occidentalis 1217'-416" End of Town Creek, Southold
Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos 11'5" -4'6" Wells Ave., 9011t1lold
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
Black Cherry Prunus serotina 811"-210" Horton La.,Southold
Norway Maple Acer platanoides 816"-416" Horton La., Southold
Norway Maple Acer platanoides 1210"-416" Browns Hill Cemetery, Orient
Norway Maple Acer platanoides 1018"-416" Browns Hill Cemetery, Orient
Norway Maple Acer platanoides 11'4" -3' Browns Hill Cemetery, Orient
Japanese Cedar Cryptomeria japonica 3110"-416" Teepee Trail,Southold
Blue Colorado Spruce Picea pungens 4110"-416" Teepee Trail, Southold
Sycamore Maple Acer pseudoplatanus 1010"-416" Horton La.,Southold
Shagbark Hickory Cayra ovata 613"-416" Peconic La., Peconic
American Elm Ulmus americana 913"-416" Peconic La., Peconic
Black Willow Salix nigra 1810"-210" Village La./King St., Orient
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1610"-416" Orchard St., Orient
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1412"-416" Orchard St., Orient
White Oak Quercus alba 1414"-416" Main Rd., East Marion
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
Black Willow Salix nigra 18'0"-216" Village La./King St., Orient
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1610"-416" Orchard La., Orient
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 1412" -416" Orchard La., Orient
Flowering Crabapple Malus coronaria 716"- 1' Main Rd., Orient
Black Walnut Juglans nigra 711" -416" Brecknock Hall, Greenport
Black Walnut Juglans nigra 8'6" -416" Brecknock Hall, Greenport
Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua 1010" - 116" ELI Hosp., Greenport
Norway Maple Acer platanoides 1213" -416" ELI Hosp., Greenport
Flowering Crabapple Malus coronaria 77 -1'6" Navy St., Orient
Black Cherry Prunus serotina 818" -410" Wabasso St.,Southold
(destroyed-Hurricane Bob 8/19/91)
Poison Sumac Toxicodendron vernix 311" -416" Robins Island (not measured in 1999)
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum 13'8"-4'6" Traveler St., Southold
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
Cork Elm Ulmus thomasii 1610"-416" Navy St., Orient
Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera 1018" -41611 Main Rd.,Southold
Black Locust Robinia pseudoacacia 1018" -41611 Main Rd.,Southold
American Elm Ulmus americana 917"-416" Main Rd., Southold
Ginkgo Ginkgo biloba 815" -416" Hobart Ave., Southold
Japanese Maple Acer dissectum 214" - 11711 Hobart Ave., Southold
Cedar of Lebanon Cedrus libani 1413" Main Rd., Orient
Japanese Maple Acer dissectum 218"-IF Main Rd., Orient
American Elm Ulmus americana 812" -416" Main Rd.,Southold
Japanese Maple Acer palmatum 511' - 116" Hobart Ave., Southold
Japanese Maple Acer palmatum 510" -2' Hobart Ave., Southold
Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera 1018" -416" Main Rd.,Southold
American Elm Ulmus americana 917"-416" Main Rd.,Southold
American Elm Ulmus americana 81" -416" Main Rd., Southold
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
American Elm Ulmus americana 1612" -416" Main Rd.,Southold
Boxwood Common Buxus sempervirens 819"- 01
0" Main Rd., Southold
Ginkgo Ginkgo biloba 8'5"-416" Hobart Ave.,Southold
Japanese Maple Acer dissectum 2'4" - 19" Hobart Ave.,Southold
Chinese Chestnut Castanea mollissima 716" - 1'0" Cedar Pt. Dr., Southold
Chinese Chestnut Castanea mollissima 718"- 016" Cedar Beach Dr.,Southold
00 Bald Cypress Common Taxodium distichum 1111"-416" Rt. 25, Cutchogue
Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera 1119" -416" Rt. 25, Cutchogue
Weeping Willow Salix babylonica 14110" -416" Rt. 25,Southold
Weeping Willow Salix babylonica 916"-416" Rt. 25, Southold
Sugar Maple Acer saccharum 7'10"-4'6" Boisseau & Rt. 48, Southold
American Holly Ilex opaca 318" -4' Main St., Southold
Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum 10' - 3' Main St., Southold
Black Oak Quercus velutina 16'4" -416" Mechanic St., Southold
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
Tree of Heaven Ailanthus altissima 7'4"-4' Miunehaha Blvd., Southold
Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera 1019" -4'6" Main Rd., Cutchogue
American Holly Ilex opaca 415"-416" Main Rd., Cutchogue
Pear Pyrus communis 416" - 116" Main Rd., Cutchogue
Red Bud Cercis canadensis 10'5"- 1" Main Rd., Cutchogue
European White Birch Betula pendula 516" -416" Main Rd., Cutchogue
Goldenraintree Koelreuteria paniculata 316"- 317" Main Rd., Cutchogue
Japanese Maple Acer dissectum 7' - 1' North Fork Country Club
Black Cherry Prunus serotina 612"-416" North Fork Country Club
Black Cherry Prunus serotina 712" - 216" North Fork Country Club
American Linden Tilia Americana 719"-3" Cutchogue Cemetery
Japanese Pagoda Tree Sophora japonica 411"-416" Founders Path, Southold
Sweet Gum Liquidambar styraciflua 517" -416" Founders °ath,Southold
American Yellowood Cladrastis kentukea 716"-3' Founders Path, Southold
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum 913" -416" Main Bayview, Southold
Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum 911" -4' Main Bayview, Southold
Royal Paulownia Paulownia tomentosa 419" -41611 Main Bayview, Southold
(Empress Tree)
Sycamore Platanus occidentalis 1116"- 110" Main Road, Southold
Sycamore Platanus occidentalis 1214"-416" Main Road, Southold
European Beech Fagus sylvatica 1212" -27" Main Road, Southold
N
European Beech Fagus sylvatica 918"- 210" Main Road, Southold
Cherry Plum Prunus cerasifera TO"-216" Main Road, Southold
English Yew Taxus baccata 81"- 010" Main Bayview, Southold
Eastern Catalpa Catalpa bignonioides 419" -4'6" Wabasso St., Southold
Royal Paulownia Paulownia tomentosa 516"-416" Main Bayview, Southold
Black Walnut Juglans nigra 9'3"-416" Main Road, Southold
American Elm Ulmus americana 11'0"-4'6" Main Bayview, Southold
American Elm Ulmus americana 1312" - 210" Main Bayview, Southold
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumflraken at
Black Locust Robinia pseudoacacia 1016"-416" Main Road, Southold
English Yew Taxus baccata 8'6"- 010" Main Road,Southold
Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera 1212"-416" Main Road,Southold
White Mulberry Morus alba 416" - 116" Main Road, Southold
Norway Maple Acer platanoides 1118"-416" Main Bayview,Southold
American Holly Ilex opaca 214" -416" Main Road, Southold
N
American Holly Ilex opaca 310"-416" Main Road,Southold
Japanese Maple Acer palmatum 417"-416" Main Road,Southold
English Yew Taxus baccata 319"- 010" Main Road, Southold
Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum 714"-416" Main Road,Southold
Tuliptree Liriodendren tulipifera 913"-4'6" Main Road,Southold
Eastern Red Cedar Juniperus viginiana 5'10"-314" Main Road,Southold
Mimosa Albizia julibrissin 414"- 110" Main Road,Southold
Pear Pyrus communis 218"-4'6" Main Road,Southold
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum 1214" -3110" Main Road,Southold
Atlas Blue Cedar Cedrus atlantica 516" -2' Main Road, Southold
English Yew Taxus baccata 616"-010" Main Bayview,Southold
Black Oak Quercus velutina 914" -416" Wickham Ave.,Mattituck
Black Oak Quercus velutina 1110" -416" Wickham Ave.,Mattituck
American Linden Tilia americana 1312"-416" Pike St.,Mattituck
N
Black Oak Quercus velutina 1019" -416" Westphalia Rd.,Mattituck
White Oak Quercus alba 1316" -416" Mattituck Presbyterian Church
Black Oak Quercus velutina 1216" -3' Pacific St.,Mattituck
Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera 12'10"-4'6" Main Rd., East Marion
Sycamore Maple Acer pseudoplatanus 8'3"-4'6" Main Bayview, Southold
Sycamore Maple Acer pseudoplatanus 419" -4'6" Sunset La., Greenport
Grey Birch Betula populifolia 816"- 0" Queen St., Greenport
White Oak Quercus alba 1216" -4'6" Kaplan Ave., Greenport
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
Tuliptree Liriodendron tulipifera 1318" -416" 5th St., Greenport
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica (cuprea) 137" -4'6" Center St., Greenport
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum 1616" -416" Kaplan Ave., Greenport
Norway Maple Acer platanoides 11'3"-313" Oregon & Elijah's La.,Mattituck
Japanese Cedar Cryptomeria japonica 513"-416" Wickham Farm
English Oak Quercus robur 1017"-416" Wickham Farm
w White Oak Quercus alba 1419" -416" William Wickham property
Pin Oak Quercus palustris 87" -4'6" Main Rd., Southold
Black Cherry Prunus serotina C511-4'6" Old Burial Ground, Cutchogue
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum 610"-416" Hummel Ave., Southold
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum 1416" -416" Hummel Ave., Southold
White Oak Quercus alba 1117"-416" Moore's Woods
American Beech Fagus grandifolia 718" -416" Moore's Woods
Red Maple Acer rubrum 16'6" -016" Moore's Woods (Toppled by wind)
Common Name Botanical Name Trunk Dimensions Location
Circumf./Taken at
Norway Spruce Picea abies 710"-416" Forster Pl., Fishers Island
Japanese Maple Acer palmatum 518" -4'6" Equestrian Ave., Fishers Is.
Norway Maple Acer platanoides 13'8"-416" Central Ave., Fishers Island
Red Maple Acer rubrum 12110" -416" Maple Swamp, Fishers Is.
Silver Maple Acer saccharinum 1910"-416" Montauk Ave., Fishers Is.
Red Maple Acer rubrum 1119"-416" Sanctuary, Fishers Island
Copper Beech Fagus sylvatica 1815"-4'6" Equestrian Ave., Fishers Is.
American Linden Tilia sylvatica (cuprea) 916"-416" Equestrian Ave., Fishers Is.
Eastern Cottonwood Populus deltodes 9110" -416" Whistler Ave., Fisher Is.
English Elm Ulmus procera 97" -416" Whistler Ave., Fishers Is.
Notes: Nomenclature in accordance with "Manual of Woody Landscape Plants", fifth edition,Michael Dirr- 1999
American Forestry Association standard-circumference measured at 4'6"above the ground in feet and inches.
If circumference cannot be measured at 4-1/2 feet(breast height) because of limbs,the measurement is taken at the
narrowest portion of the trunk between the ground and the 4-1/2 foot point.
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Linden trees in front of the Dart Farm, Main Bayview, Southold.
In colonial days farmers were required to plant trees and maintain
the road in front of their property.
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THE LARGEST PURPLE (COPPER) BEECHES IN SOUTHOLD
1999-2000
LOCATION CIRCUMFERENCE TAKEN AT
1. Main St., Southold 1614" 416"
2. Orchard St., Orient 1650" 416"
3. Orchard St., Orient 1610" 416"
4. Peconic La., Peconic 1516" 416"
5. Village La., Orient 1418" 316"
THE LARGEST ELMS IN SOUTHOLD
1999-2000
LOCATION CIRCUMFERENCE TAKEN AT
1. Main Rd., Southold 1692" 416"
2. Main Bayview, Southold 1312" TO"
3. L'Hommedieu La., Southold 12W) 456"
3. Main Bayview, Southold 11T0" 416"
5. Main Rd., Southold 917" 416"
THE LARGEST WHITE OAKS IN SOUTHOLD
1999-2000
LOCATION CIRCUMFERENCE TAKEN AT
1. William Wickham Property 1419" 416"
2. Main Rd., East Marion 1494" 496"
3. Mattituck Presbyterian Church 13%" 4%"
4. Kaplan Ave., Greenport 1296" 4'6"
5. Moore's Woods, Greenport 1197" 416"
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THE LARGEST BLACK OAKS IN SOUTHOLD
1999-2000
LOCATION CIRCUMFERENCE TAKEN AT
1. Mechanic St., Southold 1654" 496"
2. Pacific St., Mattituck 1256" 3'0"
3. Wickham Ave., Mattituck 11T" 496"
4. Westphalia Rd., Mattituck 1019" 4'6"
5. Wickham Ave., Mattituck 914" 436"
THE LARGEST TULIPTREES IN SOUTHOLD
1999-2000
LOCATION CIRCUMFERENCE TAKEN AT
1. Wells Ave., Southold 18T95 496"
2. Village La., Orient 15'2" 416"
3. Main Rd., Southold 1232" 4'6"
4. Rt. 25, Cutchogue 1 V9" 4W)
5. Main Rd., Southold 1018" 456"
THE LARGEST SILVER MAPLES IN SOUTHOLD
1999-2000
LOCATION CIRCUMFERENCE TAKEN AT
1. Kaplan Ave., Greenport 1696" 416"
2. Peconic La., Peconic 1690" 4'6"
3. Hummel Ave., Southold 1590" 416"
4. Hummel Ave., Southold 1495" 456"
5. Traveler St., Southold 13'8" 416"
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THE LARGEST SYCAMORES IN SOUTHOLD
1999-2000
LOCATION CIRCUMFERENCE TAKEN AT
1. Ackerly Pond La., Southold 16'0" 4'6"
2. Village La. & Main Rd., Orient 14'10" 4'6"
3. End of Town Creek 1297" 456"
4. Main Rd., Southold 1254" 4'6"
S. Main Rd., Southold 1156" 15
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SCIENTIFIC NAME INDEX
Acer dissectum................................. 17, 18, 19
palmatum ....................13, 14, 17, 21, 24
platanoides ..................15, 16, 21, 23, 24
pseudoplatanus..............................15, 22
rubrum ..........................................23, 24
saccharinum .... 13, 14, 16, 22, 23, 24, 27
saccharum ...........................................18
Aesculus hippocastanum ........................18, 20, 21
Ailanthus altissima ..............................................19
Albizia 'ulibrissin
Aureapendula ...............................................13
Betulapendula ...............................................19
populifolia.....................................14, 22
Buxus sempervirens .......................................18
Caltapa speciosa ...............................................13
bignonioides ........................................20
Castanea mollissima ..................................... 145 18
Cayraovata ...................................................15
Cedrus atlantica...........................
libani .......................................
Cercis canadensis ...........................................19
Cladrasstis kentukea..................................
Cryptomeria japonica......................................... 15, 23
Fagus sylvatica (cyprea) ... 13, 14, 15, 16, 23, 26
sylvatica (pendula) ...............................14
sylvatica...............................................20
grandifolia...........................................23
Ginkgo biloba ............................................17, 18
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Gleditsia triacanthos........................................... 14
Ilex opaca.......................................18, 19, 21
Juglans nigra..............................................16, 20
Juniperus viginiana..............................................21
Koelreuteria paniculata............................................19
Liriodendron tuplipifera......... 13, 14, 17-19, 21-23, 27
Liquidambar styraciflua......................................161 19
Malus coronaria.............................................16
Morusalbs .....................................................21
Pauwlonia tomentosa......................................14, 20
Picea pungens...............................................15
Platanus occidentalis........................13, 14, 20, 28
Prunus cerasifera .............................................20
serotina ...................................15, 19, 23
Pryus communis...................................... 19, 21
Quercus alba ................................... 15, 22, 23, 26
palustris...............................................23
robur ...................................................23
velutina ...................................18, 22, 27
Robinia pseudoacacia .................................17, 21
Salix babylonica .....................................13, 18
nigra..............................................15, 16
Sophora japonica...............................................19
Taxo ium
distichum.............................................18
Taxus baccata ....................................20, 21, 22
Tilia americana......................................19, 22
Toxicodendron vernix..................................................16
Ulmus americana.................... 15, 17, 18, 20, 26
thomasii .............................................. 17
procera................................................24
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COMMON NAME INDEX
Baldcypress Common ............................................. 18
Beech American .............................................23
Copper .................. 13, 14, 15, 16, 23, 26
European.............................................20
Weeping ..............................................14
Birch European White ..................................19
Gray ..............................................14, 22
Boxwood Common .............................................18
Catalpa Northern .............................................13
Eastern ................................................20
Cedar Atlas Blue ............................................22
EasternRed .........................................21
Japanese ........................................ 15, 23
Cedar of Lebanon ............................................................17
Chestnut Chinese .........................................14, 18
Crabapple Flowering ............................................16
Elm American .....................15, 171 18, 20, 26
Cork....................................................17
English ................................................24
Ginkgo ......................................................175 18
Goldenraintree ............................................................ 19
Hickory Shagbark..............................................15
Holly American ................................. 185 19, 21
Horsechestnut Common .................................18, 20, 21
Linden American.......................................19, 22
Locust Honeylocust ........................................14
Black ............................................. 17, 21
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Maple Japanese ..........13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 11, 24
Norway .......................15, 16, 21, 2.3, 24
Red................................................23, 24
Silver ............... 131 14, 16, 22, 23, 24, 27
Sugar ..............................................._... 18
Sycamore .......................................15, 22
Mimosa ............................................................21
Mulberry White ..................................................21
Oak Black ....................................... 18, 22, 27
English ................................................23
White ................................15, 22, 23,26
Pagodatree Japanese ..............................................19
Scholar-tree .........................................19
Paulownia Royal ............................................. 14,20
Empress Tree ................................. 14. 20
Princess Tree.................................. 14, 20
Pear Common ....................................... 19, 21
Redbud Eastern ................................................19
Red Cedar Eastern ................................................21
Sumac Poison..................................................16
Sweet Gum American ....................................... 163 19
Sycamore American Planetree............ 13, 14, 20, 28
Buttonwood ......................13, 14, 20, 28
Buttonball Tree ..................13, 14, 20, 28
Treeof Heaven ............................................................19
Tuliptree ........................13, 145 17, 18, 21, 22, 27
Walnut Black .............................................16,20
Willow Black .............................................15, 16
Weeping ........................................13, 18
Yellowood American .............................................19
Yew English ....................................20, 21,22
Common .................................20, 21,22
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SOUTHOLD TOWN TREE COMMITTEE
Our Town's Tree Committee was created by the Town
on September 22, 1987. The Committees includes
seven volunteer members, all having been appointed by the
Town Board. Members have such diverse backgrounds as
education, landscape architecture, horticulture, viniculture,
law, business and, of course, a keen interest in the botanical
sciences.
The Tree Committee sponsors the Memorial Tree
Program which has been successful in memorializing departed
individuals in addition to beautifying the town with street
trees. Another program sponsored by the Committee is the
annual Arbor Day distribution of seedling trees to schools
for planting. This year 1,000 seedlings were distributed to
Southold Town schools including 75 for Fishers Island.
Members have given generously of their time to prune
and water trees throughout the town in time of drought and
nurture new plantings.
Current 2000 committee membership includes:
Lawrence Catullo Michael D. Shannon, Co-Chair
Michael J. Domino, Co-Chair Sally Beth Steiner
James T. Glover Thomas C. Stevenson
Robert G. Kassner Martha A.Jones, Secretary
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CONNECTICUT
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Glen Neck Neck Shelter Gardiners
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NOTABLE PUBLIC TREE COLLECTIONS
1. Prospect Park 4. W.C. Bryant Park and Preserve 8. Planting Fields Arboretum
2. Brooklyn Botanic Garden 5. Bailey Arboretum 9. Bayard Cutting Arboretum
3. Kissena Park 6. Old Westbury Gardens 10. Parrish Art Museum
7. Muttontown Park and Preserve