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Plan of Evanston
and will thus be kept for us and our children forever. Large numbers of saplings were taken up in these woods and transplanted along the borders of streets looking very weak and insignificant among the older forest trees promiscuously scattered about. This work went on for years under direction largely of Dr. Philo Judson, the energetic business agent of the University. Just as foreseen, nearly all the old trees have passed away and the elm and maple saplings have grown to be splendid avenues of shade trees, which give to Evanston of the present day the well deserved distinction of being the best shaded city in the West. The double rows of "immemorial elms" standing along the borders of Judson and Forest avenues are specimens of what has been accomplished by this early planting, their towering branches arching over the streets suggesting the effects produced by the pointed arches in old Gothic cathedrals of Europe. There are many miles of streets in Evanston along the borders of which stand serried rows of
