The Feather Elm of Vosseparkje (south-east, by the pond)

The national register says nothing about how big this elm is and rather a lot about where it stands: it has a fine spot by the pond. That is the entry, more or less in full. State inventories do not usually pay compliments to a view. The Vosseparkje is small, a few minutes end to end, and seven of the trees in it are on that register. A Caucasian wingnut, a grey poplar, a leaning black locust, a Canadian poplar, an oak nobody has pinned to a species, and two feather elms of the same cultivar. This is the one by the water. Its counterpart stands about 250 metres off at the north-west end, which makes the pond the thing that tells them apart. The ground was landscaped in 1872 by Gerrit Vlaskamp, around a reservoir built to hold the city's drinking water, and redrawn in 1926. The register dates this elm to between 1900 and 1910, so it was already standing when the 1926 plan was drawn and it is older than the park's present shape. Nobody has written it up beyond the register. Two walking routes cover this neighbourhood, one from the city's historical centre and one following its monumental trees, and neither of them names the elm at the pond.