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none, for the fragrance and beauty of its 

 flowers and foliage* The red-flowered, and 

 striped-leaved kinds, make a beautiful va- 

 riety in ornamental plantations. As a tim- 

 ber-tree, it is of little note ; nor is it useful 

 as fuel, its wood being burned with dif- 

 ficulty. 



ELM. (The Scotch, or rough leaved. J 

 This tree suits itself to almost all soils and 

 situations. That in which it luxuriates, is a 

 deep black loam ; but that in which its tim- 

 ber is most valuable, is a lightish sandy loam, 

 lying on a gravelly or other porous sub-stra- 

 tum. It will bear partial inundation with 

 considerable patience, and is not unfre- 

 quently found flourishing by the banks of 

 rivers ; which, perhaps, wash one side of its 

 roots. On the bleakest hills, and where soil 

 is hardly perceptible, it will find pasture, by 

 insinuating its roots into the crevices of rocks. 

 As a valuable forest-tree, it stands forward 

 in . the first ranks ; giving place to the Oak 

 and Larch only. Its timber is sufficiently 

 \vell known to the cart-wright, the mill- 

 wright, the cabinet-maker, the coach-maker, 



