490 ULMUS CAMPESTRIS. 
of the Luxembourg, at Paris, which stood until it was destroyed, in the revolu- 
tion, last referred to. There are many fine avenues of elms existing in France, at 
the present day, particularly those in the Champs Elysees, and at Versailles. 
Among the largest existing trees of the Ulmus campestris in France, is one at 
Nantes, in the nursery of M. De Nerrieres, which, in eighty years after planting, 
had attained the height of seventy feet, with a trunk six feet in diameter. 
In Italy, at Monza, there is an Ulmus campestris, which, in twenty-nine years 
after planting, had attained the height of seventy-five feet, with a trunk one foot 
and nine inches in diameter, and an ambitus of forty-five feet. In the same place 
there is also an Ulmus c. suberosa, of about the same age and dimensions. 
In Switzerland, near Morges, there stood an Ulmus campestris, which was 
blown down some years since, that had a trunk seventeen feet and seven inches 
in diameter, and was estimated to be three hundred and thirty-five years old. 
The precise date at which the Ulmus campestris was introduced into the 
United States is uncertain. There are many trees of this species, and of the 
Ulmus c. montana, growing within the environs of Boston, in Massachusetts, 
which, from their dimensions, must somewhat exceed one hundred years of age. 
The largest specimen of the species we have met with, is on the seat of Mr. 
Henry Codman, in Roxbury, which has attained the height of one hundred feet, 
with a trunk sixteen feet in circumference, at three feet above the ground. 
Among the eleven individuals which stand in Tremont street, in Boston, opposite 
the Granary Cemetery, there are several that measure nine feet in circumference, 
at about a yard above the pavement. On the authority of Mr. John Welles, 
these trees were planted by Major Adino Paddock, and John Ballard, in the year 
1762. 
In the Park, at New York, near the north-westerly corner of the City Hall, 
there is a beautiful specimen of the Ulmus campestris, which has attained a 
height of about fifty feet, with a trunk two feet in diameter. 
Poetical, Mythological, and Legendary Allusions. The ancient poets fre- 
quently mention the elm, which, in common with many other trees bearing ines- 
culent fruit, was devoted by them to the infernal gods. The Greeks and Romans 
considered all as funeral trees which produced no fruit fit for the use of man. 
Homer alludes to this, when he tells us, in the "Iliad," that Achilles raised a 
monument to the father of Andromache in the midst of a grove of elms, 
"Jove's sylvan (laughters bade their elms bestow 
A barren shade, and in his honour grow." 
And in more modern times, Strutt informs us, in his "Sylva Britannica," that 
the venerable Bishop of Durham, erected an urn in the midst of the grove of 
elms, at Mongewell, in Oxfordshire, inscribing thereon, to the memory of two 
highly valued friends, the following classical fragment, 
" In this once-favoured walk, beneath these elms, 
Where thickened foliage, to the solar ray 
Impervious, sheds a venerable gloom, 
Oft in instructive converse we beguiled 
The fervid time, which each returning year 
To friendship's call devoted. Such things were; 
But are, alas ! no more." 
Where, he observes, "it was delightful for him to contemplate wandering, in his 
ninetieth year, amidst shades with which he was almost coeval, and which, in 
freshness and tranquillity, afforded most suitable emblems of his own green and 
venerable old age." 
Ovid tells us that, when Orpheus returned to earth after his descent into the 
infernal regions, his lamentations for the loss of Eurydice were so pathetic, that 
the earth opened, and the elm and other trees sprang up to give him shade. 
