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which adapts it better to a diftance. We 

 obferve alfo, when we fee this tree in company 

 with the common elm, that it's bark is fome- 

 what of a lighter hue. The wich-elm is 

 a native of Scotland, where it is found not 

 only in the plains, and vallies of the low- 

 lands ; but is hardy enough to climb the 

 fteeps, and flourifh in the remoteft highlands : 

 tho it does not attain, in thofe climates, the 

 fize, which it attains in England. Naturalifts 

 fuppofe the wich-elm to be the only fpecies 

 of this tree, which is indigenous to our ifland. 



There is another variety alfo of this tree, 

 called the weeping elm. Whether it's timber 

 is lefs ufeful, or it is propagated with greater 

 difficulty, I know not ; but I have rarely met 

 with it. The fineft of this fpecies I have feen, 

 grow in St. John's walks at Cambridge. An 

 eye accuftomed to the tree, will eafily perceive 

 that it's branches are more penfile, and it's 

 leaves of fmaller dimenfions, than thofe of the 

 common elm. 



An old elm, which grew formerly in the 

 grove at Magdalen college in Oxford, was by 

 fome accident difbarked entirely round. A 

 malady of this kind is generally reckoned fatal 

 to all the vegetable race. But this tree 



flourifhed 



