CHAPTER III. 



Broad-leaved Trees Trees as Landscape Ornaments Influence of 

 Climate Planting in the Sixteenth Century Turner's "Herbal " 

 Gerrard's Catalogue and Physic-garden in Holborn Sir Hans 

 Sloane's Physic-garden at Chelsea Doctor Compton, Bishop of 

 London Planting greatly stimulated The "Hortus Kewensis "- 

 Trees introduced by Douglas The Ash The Beech Old Tree in 

 Windsor Forest Indisposition of English Farmers to turn their 

 attention to Agricultural Manufactures The Birch The Elm 

 The Mountain or Wych Elm The Huntingdon Elm Cork- 

 barked Elm American Elm Curled-leaved Elm Variegated 

 Elm Weeping Elm Aptitude of the Elm to "sport," or vary 

 from seed The Chestnut Tree Valuable as Coppice The Timber 

 chiefly valuable when young Derivation of its Name Grown in 

 Spain for its Fruit Brought to Europe by the Greeks from Sardis 

 Largest and oldest Chestnut Tree in the World Great Chestnut 

 at Tortworth Raising trees from Seed Ornamental Varieties. 



I WILL next speak of the varieties which are usually 

 termed broad-leaved timber trees, which embrace the 

 oak, elm, ash, beech, birch, plane, hornbeam, locust, 

 sycamore, walnut, and Spanish chestnut; none of 

 which succeed well in elevated situations, exposed to a 

 rigorous climate, where cone-bearing, or resinous trees, 

 succeed, such as the pine, larch, and spruce, and 

 kindred species ; nor answer in low-lying situations, 

 such as I have been describing, that are surcharged 

 with moisture. 



As landscape ornaments, the broad-leaved timber 



