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Tlie timber is excellent ; and the tree forms poles of equal iliameter 

 throii-^hout. There are fine specimens of this tree in Minster, 

 Tliaiiet, and at Ickhani, near Canterbury. In Mr. May's park, at 

 Heme, where there arc several kinds of elms, ail of which thrive 

 remarkably well, one recently cut down showed this day (Nov. 

 14. 1830)" indications of upwards of IGO years' growth. A portion 

 of the trunk girts 15 ft. for 16 ft. in length. Tiie remaining part of 

 tlie tree has been a|)[)ropriated. 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. 



S U c. 6 inrc'iis 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. 



1 \}. c.l cormibiensls Hort. ; U. stricta Lindl. Si/nop., p. 227., Lodd. Cat., 

 ed. 1836; t/ie Cornhh Elm; is an upright-branched tree, with small, 

 strongly veined, coriaceous leaves. " Branches bright brown, smooth, 

 rigid, erect, and very compact." {Lindl.) 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 jjlanted, 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 parvilolia, 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. 



5 U. c.Ssarnu'iiiis ; U. sarniensis Zorfrf. 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 (Tarden. 

 t U. c. 9 tortuosa; U. tortuosa Lodd. Cat., 1836; ? Orme tortilla-rd, Fr. 

 The twisted Elm. — For an account of the uses of this tree, see the 

 list of French varieties, p. 1.379. There is a plant in the London 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, G ft. high. 



B. Ornamental, or curious. Trees. 



'i U. c. \Ofoliis vnriegdtis Lodd. Cat,, cd. 1836. — This variety, which may 

 be cafled the silver-leaved elm, has the leaves striped with white, 

 antl, in spring, is very ornamental. 



S U. r. 11 hctutceJ'oUa, U. ietulaefolia Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, has leaves 

 son)ewhat resembling those of the common birch. 



4 U. e. 12 viminalis; U. viniinalis Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; and the plate in our 

 last Volume ; has small leaves, and numerous slemler 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 foUage, this 

 sort is fretjuently mistaken for a variety of birch. It is ijuite us'clcss 

 for timber, but makes an ornamental tree, with a character of its 



