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Elms were believed to have been planted in the churchyard by 
the Man of Ross. 
One of these trees was cut down and two suckers came up one 
-on each side of the pew formerly used by the Man of Ross. 
There is a drawing of these trees made on the occasion of the 
visit of the Woolhope Club in 1878. From the drawing, the 
trees would appear to be about 20 feet high. (1) 
These trees were both dead when the Woolhope Club revisited 
the Church in 1884, but the dead trees were there with a creeper 
planted to climb up them. (2) 
In addition to the foregoing reasons why it seems improbable 
that the Elm will continue to be the prevailing tree, are, amongst 
others, the following :— 
It is essentially a hedge row tree, and it has been for some time 
the practice to do away with hedges as much as possible. The 
Elms we see are many of them those formerly in hedges, which 
hedges have been destroyed. These Elms have been left, but as 
they are cut down others are not planted in their places. 
The Elm timber has been somewhat brought into disrepute 
by the habit nurserymen have of raising plants of the Scotch Elm 
and grafting the English Elm upon them. 
The seed of the Scotch Elm (which fruits here) can, of course, 
be obtained here in any quantity without cost. 
It is therefore cheaper to graft on the Scotch Elm. 
Mr. Veitch informs me that “the seed of the U/mus Campestris 
(the English Elm) is obtained from Germany, but the true 
English Elm is always propagated by grafting, as it does not come 
true from seed.” (3) 
This practice is strongly objected to by Selby on the ground 
that the Scotch Elm requires a much better soil than the English 
Elm, and, therefore, that the English Elm when grafted on the 
(1) ‘* Transactions of Woolhope Club,” 1878, p. 115. 
(2) ‘* Transactions of Woolhope Club,” for 1884, p. 210. 
(3) See also ‘‘ Selby’s British Forest Trees,” p. 103. 
