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Thornless Common Honeylocust

Date: 1979
Description: A winter view of a specimen of Gleditsia triacanthos inermis, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin. The tree is standing next to the st...
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Basswood

Date: 1979
Description: A specimen of Tilia americana (Linden), judged in 1975 to be the largest of its species in Wisconsin, standing in a snowy landscape with smaller tre...
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Edward Hasselkus

Date: 1979
Description: Edward Hasselkus, University of Wisconsin professor of horticulture and curator of Longenecker Gardens at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison ...
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Tree

Date: 1979
Description: A cropped view of a tree, looking upward, accentuates the pattern and texture of the bark as the branches extend outward. There is a light dusting of snow ...
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Taliesin Elm

Date: 02 1982
Description: A large American elm, Ulmus americana, standing amid the snow covered stubble in a cornfield. Taliesin, the home of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is...
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La Follette Hickory

Date: 1982
Description: A well-shaped hickory on the Wisconsin capitol grounds in winter, against the backdrop of the capitol building. The tree, estimated to be about forty to f...
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Dean Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A large white oak in a snowy landscape along County Trunk Highway S. The tree is asymmetrical, missing portions of several major limbs. There is a silo an...
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View of Gays Mills

Date: 1982
Description: Bare trees frame an elevated view of Gays Mills taken from a snowy hilltop, showing Highway 131, lower right, as it curves into Main Street. Highway 171 en...
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Quivey's Grove Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A bare, large bur oak appears almost as a silhouette against the sky and snow-covered ground. It is standing on the grounds of Quivey's Grove Restaurant at...
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Magnus Swenson Trees

Date: 1982
Description: A solitary Norway spruce is framed by the limb and trunk of a large tree on "Thorstrand," the former estate of entrepreneur Magnus Swenson. Snow is on the ...
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White Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A mature white oak with multiple large branches standing in the backyard of the Robert Carberry house on Millston Avenue. The rear of the house and a bird ...
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The Poet's Larch

Date: 1982
Description: The lower portion of the trunk of a large larch tree standing beside the farmhouse of poet Edna Meudt. The tree had been toppled by a tornado in 1973 and w...
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Chief Tokaunee Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A very large, spreading bur oak standing in a snow-covered field. There are small conifers planted in the foreground. The oak bears the name of a Ho-Chunk...
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Pine Street Oak

Date: 1982
Description: A grand white oak standing at the northwest corner of Pine and Hickory Streets. The tree dwarfs the house on the left and branches extend completely across...
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Champion White Ash

Date: 1979
Description: A towering white ash, devoid of leaves, standing along the sidewalk in front of a two-story brick Norman revival house with a large chimney. There is a du...
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The President's Tree

Date: 1982
Description: A large, spreading bur oak standing in a snowy landscape along a sidewalk on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Van Hise Hall is on the right. The...
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Willow Drive

Date: 1982
Description: Large specimens of Salix alba line Willow Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Some of the trees date from the 1890s, and many have ...
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The Goff Larch

Date: 1982
Description: This European Larch with two trunks was planted on the lawn of the Agricultural Dean's House on Babcock Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus...
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Autumn Purple White Ash

Date: 1980
Description: A mature white ash (Fraxinus americana) standing on a snow covered slope on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Van Hise hall is on the left...
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Edgewood Drive Oaks

Date: 1982
Description: A very large and well branched bur oak tree standing alongside Edgewood Drive near a small bridge. In the background is another large oak and a conifer. Th...

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