528 STATE AND PROSPECTS OF ARBORICULTURE IN HAMPSHIRE. 
are several varieties of elm, but the most frequently grown is the 
common English elm (U/mus campestris). The other varieties 
are the Wych (U. montana), the smooth-leaved (U. glabra), the 
Cornish (U. cornubiensis), and the Dutch or cork-barked JU. 
suberosa). All these varieties may be, for timber purposes, 
taken as elm, with the exception of the Wych, which commands 
an exceptionally high price for boat-building, but it is scarce. 
The other elms are in demand for keels of ships, planking, coffin 
boards, seats of chairs, wheel stocks, etc. Notwithstanding the 
number of trees which were uprooted by the great gale of 
October 1881 and subsequent storms, when elm descended to an 
almost nominal price, the value may be quoted as follows :— 
Under 20 ft. meetings, at 6d. to 7d. per foot. 
20 ft. and under 40 ft. do., at 7d. to 11d. 3 
40 and upwards, do., at 1ld. to 16d. ay 
REMARKABLE Etm TREES. 
Broadlands Park, near Romsey (Lord Mount-Temple), is rich in 
specimens of elm, but the one that commands our attention is at 
the commencement of a row running north-west by the dairy- 
house. It has the large circumference at 43 ft. up of 24 ft. 7 in., 
and at the ground 25 ft. 2 in.; at 9 ft. up it branches into two 
immense limbs, and attains a sheer height of 110 ft. It is in 
perfect health, and as seen from the river front of the house it has 
a grand appearance ; soil, deep alluvial, on the Bracklesham beds. 
In Wherwell Priory grounds, by the road from Wherwell to 
Longparish, is one with a circumference of 20 ft. 10 in., which at 
10 ft. up branches into four large limbs, with a total height of 
110 ft. ; soil, alluvium ; subsoil, chalk. 
In front of Dogmersfield House, between the forks of the 
coach road, comes the third in the list, with a girth of 19 ft. 
1 in., or only 1 ft. 9 in. less than the one at Wherwell, but it is 
not so healthy looking, and stands high and exposed ; soil, sandy 
clay, on the London clay. 
Many throughout the county are to be found girthing from 
17 £t. downwards, and most of them are fine timber trees. 
The Wych Elm (U/mus montana).—The largest specimen stands 
in Weir Mead, Tufton, near Whitchurch, and has a circumference 
of 15 ft. 7 in. The second is in Weir Mead, Hurstbourne Park, 
with a girth of 15 ft. 0} in.; and the third is on Garlic farm, 
