CHAP. Cl. ULMA‘CE. U’'LMUS. 1405 
It preserves its fotiage long after U.(m.) glabra; and its bark is 
like that of the Huntingdon elm. This tree is also more spreading 
than that sort. Judging from the specimens of this variety sent to 
us by Mr. Masters, we should say that it belongs fully as much to 
U. montana as to U,(m.) glabra. 
* U. (m.) g. 5 glandulosa Lind). — Leaves very glandular beneath. 
¥ U. ( — g. 6 latifolia Lindl. — Leaves oblong, acute, very broad. 
* U. (m.) g. 7 microphilla H. S.—The tree of this variety in the Horti- 
cultural Society’s Garden is 40 ft. high, and bears a considerable 
resemblance to U. campéstris; but is evidently of the U. montana 
family. A tree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, marked U. 
g. parvifolia (from Germany ), seems to us identical with this variety. 
B. Ornamental or curious Trees. 
* U. (m.) g. 8 péndula, U. campéstris péndula Hort. Dur.,the Downton 
Elm, was raised in Smith’s Nursery, at Worcester, Mr. Smith 
states, in 1810, from seeds obtained from atree in Nottinghamshire. 
Mr. Knight of Downton Castle purchased some of these trees; 
and one of them turned out to be that weeping variety which 
has since obtained the name of the Downton elm. On writing to 
Mr. Smith, to endeavour to get some information respecting the 
trees that produced the seed, he informs us in answer, that, after 
making every enquiry in Nottinghamshire respecting these trees, he 
finds “ they were a mixture of wych and English: probably they 
were all planted as English; but, being grafted trees, and being planted 
by the side of a public road, they might have been broken off at the 
graft when young. At any rate, the plants produced from the seeds 
were a complete mixture of the English and wych elms, both by 
their leaves and their manner of growth. The original trees in Not- 
tinghamshire have been long since cut down, and the ground built 
upon. The plants which I raised,” he adds, “ not meeting with a 
ready sale, I grafted them with the common English elm, which is 
* more in demand in this neighbourhood.” Mr. Knight observes that 
“the Downton elm is more remarkable for the singularity of its 
form and growth, than for its value as a timber tree.” There is a tree 
of this variety in the Horticultural Society’s Garden 23 ft. high, the 
branches of which are somewhat pendulous. 
¥ U. (m.) g. 9 variegdta H. S. has variegated leaves. 
¥ U.(m.) g. 10 ramulosa Booth.—We have not seen this variety lately ; 
but there were plants of it in the Horticultural Society’s Garden 
some years ago; and we suppose it still exists in the Floetbeck 
Nurseries. 
Statistics. Young trees of Ulmus glabra in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, which, in 1834, 
had been 10 years planted, were between 30 ft and 40ft. high. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 
40 years planted, it is 66 ft. high ; diameter of the trunk 2ft., and of the head 44ft. In Staffordshire, 
at Trentham, 26 years planted, it is 54 ft. high. In Yorkshire, at Grimston, 14 years planted, it is 
25 ft. high. In Perthshire, at Taymouth, 160 years planted, it is 100 ft. high ; diameter of the trunk 
8ft., and of the head 90 ft. In Germany, in the Botanic Garden, Gottingen, it is 50 ft. high, with 
a trunk 1 ft. in diameter. 
Commercial Statistics, Plants of the Huntingdon elm, in the London nur- 
series, from 4 ft. to 5 ft. high (that is, one year grafted), are 25s. per hundred ; 
from7 ft. to 9 ft. high (that is, 2 years from the graft), 50s. per hundred. 
¥ 8. U. a‘LBa Kit. The whitish-/eaved Elm. 
Identification. Kitaib., quoted in Ram. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 300. ; Willd. Baumz., p. 518. ; 
ag Oestr. Fl., ed. 2., 1. p. 466.; Reem, et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. S00. ; Spreng. Syst. Veg., 1. 
p. 930. 
Spec. Char., &c. Bark grey brown; smooth, not chinky. Leaves with downy petioles; and disks 
oblong, acuminate, 24in. long, unequal at the base, doubly and very argutely serrate; above, 
deep green ; beneath, downy, and becoming obviously whitish. (Wei/d. and Schult. Syst. Veg., vi. 
: A native of Hungary; said to have been introduced in 1834, but we are not aware that 
the plant is in British gardens, 
