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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 20., An Unshaded river. (search)
An Unshaded river. It seems strange to see a river with no trees on its banks. Such was the remark made by a visitor while looking at our Mystic and its nearby Parkway. Well, there's a reason, we replied, for till recently the river has been salt, because of the tidal flow from the ocean. In the construction of the Parkway, along the marshland, provision was made at regular intervals for shade trees by excavating a tree pit some seven feet in diameter in the salt mud and filling the same with a suitable soil, in which trees (many of them oak) have been planted. But nature is doing something closer to the river's edge in a few-very few-instances. On the river bank, down stream from Canal bridge (Boston avenue), are two birches, now about twenty feet high, that have sprung up in the made land beside the Metropolitan sewer. These are close to the water's edge, and have sprung up since the exclusion of the tide-water. At the top of the bank are two elms that started earlier