244 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
NOTES AND QUERIES: 
THE ENGLISH ELM IN SCOTLAND. 
The English elm (U/mus campestris) is not a favourite tree 
with Scottish planters, and all the authorities pronounce it inferior 
to the Wych elm (U. montana) for the Scottish climate. 
Iam 
unable to agree in this opinion, and, having had a discussion 
upon it lately with a friend who is making observations on tree- 
growth, I took the measurements of individuals of both species 
growing together at Monreith, with the following result. 
Age. 
I. English Elm, 
2. English Elm, 
3. Wych Elm, 
| 4. Wych Elm, 
5. English Elm, 
6. English Elm, 
7. English Elm: 
small - leafed 
or ‘‘South- 
ampton” 
variety. 
| 8. Do. 
9g. Wych Elm, 
J 
About 100 years 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
About 56 years 
Height. 
Feet. 
68 
68 
65 
62 
62 
63 
54 
Ft. 
Io 
5 
| 5 
lus. 
wo + 
wm Oo 
Feet. 
25 
24 
15 | 
Girth at | Clean 
4 to 5 feet.| Bole. 
REMARKS. 
: 
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These four trees are the 
largest of their species grow- 
ing together within a radius 
of 100 yards in woodland, 
exposed to S.W., where 
there is a lake half a mile 
long admitting full force 
of sea wind. Sea distant 
about 14 mile to S.W. 
Soil, hazel loam on boulder 
clay. 
These trees are in open 
park much exposed. Wych 
elms of same age near them 
are not half the size. Soil, 
same as last. 
These trees are growing 
together in woodland; ex- 
posure, S.E. Soil same 
as last, but stiffer. The 
Southampton elm spreads 
rapidly by suckers. 
These results confirm me in my impression that the English 
elm, which does fairly well on. this exposed seaboard, would 
flourish finely if it got a chance in more sheltered districts in 
It is far less troublesome in a wood than the Wych 
Scotland. 
EO 
