Roy ran his finger around the sun-bleached outline of a pocket watch in his overalls as he leaned against the giant elm that shades my porch.

I scan the sidewalk ahead for Kline but cannot see him; the path is obscured by the shadows of thick-rooted trees, giant elms lining the walkway.

But the giant elms of Baedecker's childhood were gone.

It is over there, by that giant elm.

Looking up at the giant elm near the front stone wall, I decide that the tree is disintegrating.

The giant elms creaked and groaned as the racing wind shrieked in their bent riggings.

The back of the house faces south, an avenue of giant elms and a few old oaks lay over that way.

Storm's Bridge became Hall's Corners and then, after the Civil War, Elmsford, for a giant elm that stood at the stone ford in the river.

Lone Tree derives its name from a giant elm that grew nearby in the pioneer era.

In the spring, one of Winged Foot's pin oaks will be transplanted where the giant elm was sawed down, branch by branch.