1376 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ill. 
The timber is excellent ; and the tree forms poles of equal diameter 
throughout. There are fine specimens of this tree in Minster, 
Thanet, and at Ickham, near Canterbury. In Mr. May’s park, at 
Herne, where there are several kinds of elms, all of which thrive 
remarkably well, one recently cut down showed this day (Nov. 
14. 1836) indications of upwards of 100 years’ growth. A portion 
of the trunk girts 15 ft. for 16 ft. in length. The remaining part of 
the tree has been appropriated. There is a tree in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, marked U. c. rubra, which, judging from the spe- 
cimens sent to us by Mr. Masters, appears to be identical with this 
variety. It is a splendid tree, and, in 1834, had attained the height 
of 32 ft., with a trunk 7 in. in diameter, after being 10 years planted. 
¥ U c. 6 virens Hort. Dur., or Kidbrook Elm, is almost evergreen in a 
mild winter ; and, as such, is the most ornamental tree of the genus. 
It must not, however, be depended upon as a timber tree, because, 
in some autumns, the frost kills the shoots. The bark is red, and the 
tree of spreading habit. This, like the last-mentioned kind, grows 
well upon chalk. Notwithstanding its name of Kidbrook elm, a 
place in Sussex, it is a Cornish variety. There is a fine tree in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, named there U. montana nodosa, 
which fully answers to the above description of Mr. Masters. 
¥ U. c. 7 cornubiénsis Hort. ; U. stricta Lindl. Synop., p. 227., Lodd. Cat., 
ed. 1836; the Cornish Elm; is an upright-branched tree, with small, 
strongly veined, coriaceous leaves. “ Branches bright brown, smooth, 
rigid, erect, and very compact.” (Lind/.) This variety, in the climate 
of London, is a week or fortnight later in coming into leaf than the 
common elm, It attains a very great height, and has a somewhat 
narrower head than the species. There are very large specimens 
of it at Bagshot Park, 70 years planted, which are 70 ft. high; the 
diameter of the trunk 3ft., and of the head 40 ft. In Worcestershire, 
at Croome, the tree, 50 years planted, is 70 ft. high ; the diameter of 
the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 15 ft. There are young trees in the 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, one of which, in 1834, after being 
10 years planted, was 15 ft. high ; and several at Messrs. Loddiges’s. 
Dr. Lindley mentions a subvariety of this sort, with much smaller 
leaves ; which he has named U. s. 2 parvifolia, and which is the U. 
s. 2 microphylla of Lodd. Cat., 1836. There are two other sub- 
varieties mentioned in Lodd. Cat., under the names of U. s. aspera, 
and U. s. crispa. 
¥* U. c.8 sarniénsis ; U. sarniénsis Lodd. Cat., 1836; the Jersey Elm; is a 
free-growing variety, differing very little from the species. There are 
trees of this kind 20 ft. high in the Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
¥ U.c.9 tortudsa; U. tortuosa Lodd. Cat., 1836; ? Orme tortillard, Fr. 
The twisted Elm. — For an account of the uses of this tree, see the 
list of French varieties, p. 1379. There is a plant in the London 
Horticultural Society’s Garden, 6 ft. high. 
B. Ornamental, or curious, Trees. 
* U. c. 10 foliis variegatis Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. — This variety, which may 
be called the silver-leaved elm, has the leaves striped with white, 
and, in spring, is very ornamental. 
* U.c. 11 betulefolia, U. betuleefolia Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, has leaves 
somewhat resembling those of the common birch. 
¥ U. c. 12 viminilis; U. viminalis Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; and the plate in our 
last Volume; has small leaves, and numerous slender twig-like 
branches. It is a very distinct and elegant variety ; and easily recog- 
nised, either in summer or winter. In some stages of its foliage, this 
sort is frequently mistaken for a variety of birch. It is quite useless 
for timber, but makes an ornamental tree, with a character of its 
