PI. 223. 



A CHINESE ELM, CENTURIES OLD. 



(ULMI v I'l MIL.\ L.) 



The unusual adaptation to widely varying conditions of growth 

 exhibited by this introduced species, which is now growing in 

 hundreds of places in America from Canada to the Gulf States 

 makes this illustration of a tree, which is said to be 300 years old 

 and is still growing in the Central Park in Peking, of unusual inter- 

 est to American tree lovers. (Photographed by Frank N. Meyer, 

 November 9, 1916, at Peking, China; P12375FS.) 



