782 Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. [Oc^. 2, 1908. 



Select Bibliography. 

 Gambl(>, J. S.— "Manual ..f Indian Timbers" (1902 Edition). 

 King, G. — The species of Ficus of the Iiido-Malayan and Cliinese- 

 Countries. 

 Part 1 — Pahemorphc and Urostigma (1887). 



Part 2— Synoecia, Syeidiinn, CoveUia, -Eu-syee and Neomorphe (^1888).. 

 Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard., Calcutta, i. 

 Loudon, .1. C Arboretum et Fruticetuni IWirainiicum. \'ol. Ill, pp.. 



1342-1420. 

 Mueller — "Select exti-a ti'Opical plants." 

 ►Sargent — " Silva of North America." Vol. VII. 



Weddell, H. A. — Monogra])hie de la Famille <les Urticees. Archives du 

 Museum, t. IX, Paris, ])p. 092, with 20 plates. 



ULMACE^.. 

 The Elms (Ulmns). 

 There are about twenty species, confined to the colder and temperate i-egions 

 of the northern hemisphere, while the cultivated forms ;iinount to a very great 

 many. 



On this point Loudon, p. 1375, says : — 



These are very numerous, both in Britain and on the Continent : and most of thum 

 • have been selected by nurserymen from their .seed-beds. Any one, Baudrillart remarks, 

 who has ever observed a bed of seedling ehns, must have noticed that some iiave large 

 leaves, and some small ones ; some are early, some are late ; some have smodth bark, and 

 some rougli bark ; and some soft leaves, and others very rougli ones. Some varieties are 

 higher than otheis ; the branches take now a vertical, and again a horizontal, direction. 

 In short, vvliile botanists describe, and cultivators sow, they will tiiid that nature sports 

 with their labours, and seems to delight in setting at fault alike the science of the one 

 and the hopes of the otlier. This is always the case with plants that have been long 

 submitted to the cultivation of man. The cares that are bestowed upon them, tlie 

 different situations in which they are placed, and the difierent kinds of treatment 

 which they receive, appear to change their native habits. (See Die/, des Eaux ttjorvta, 

 ii, p. 4(H).) 



Elms, speaking generally, require rich, deep, moist, alluvial soils in the 

 coldest parts of New South Wales. The Elms of Tumiit, for example, are 

 remarkably fine. 



Elms seem to require cool winters for their pi-oper development. I am 

 sorry to hear that the fine Elms of Wagga Wagga are doomed. Beautiful to 

 look at, they ai-e becoming a prey to boring beetles. The summer heat and 

 warm nights with insufficient accentuation of cold during the winter, appear 

 to induce in these trees debility which renders them an easv prey to insects. 



Elms of the Old World. 



1. U. campestris, L. The Common Elm of Eurojje. It extends to North 

 Africa. See t. 232 of lientlev and Trimen's " ^Medicinal Plants." The 

 Conmion Elm does very well in Melbourne and Adelaic^le ; it succeeds far less 

 in Sydney. \\\ Europe it is very abundant, being used both in parks and 

 for street and avenue planting. 



