Bamboo

There is such a thing as native Northern American Bamboo... but the species still stems from East Asia.  Botanist don't know how long ago, how or who brought the species over to the US.  Maybe we'll never know, but we do know one thing... before Olmstead began his career in the 1850's and then began his magestic creation of nature with the Emerald Necklace of Boston in 1878...  before this time, in 1847 there was Richard Sullivan Fay of the Fay Estate on the border of Lynn and Salem who filled the prairies and meadows of the old Clifford and Crowninshield farm, into an exotic paradise of rare flora and trees imported from around the world.  


In a section of this enchanted arboretum we call a forest today, this tropical plant is found crawling off the beaten path.  Bamboo is a good material for birds to create their nests.  In this historic gem of paradise,  there is a wildlife, a chorus of birds, toads and crickets to experience morning till evening, where the sounds of cars disappear...

The Clifford/ Crowninshield/ Fay Estate was once 500 acres located partially in Lynn and Salem near Spring Pond.  Today the areas of the historic estate include the Neighborhood of the Fay Estate in Lynn and the Land of Camp Lion in Salem (including Walmart and other pieces which were taken or bought off Camp Lion).