'The New-Haven Elms', 1874. People walking in the shade of Elm Arcade, Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. By the early 1900s, American elms which are native to eastern North America, were being widely planted throughout Connecticut as shade trees and to line village and city streets. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]