NATURAL HISJ^ORY OF SELBORNE. 



LETTER II. 



IN the court of Norton farmhouse, a manor farm to the north- 

 west of the village, on the white malms, stood within these twenty 





WYCH ELM. 



years a broad-leaved elm, or wych hazel, ulmus folio latissimo scabro 

 of Ray, which, though it had lost a considerable leading bough in 

 the great storm in the year 1703, equal to a moderate tree, yet, 



