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1 An elm for graceful verdure, bushy bough, 

 A lofty top, and a firm rind allow. 

 Plant elm in borders, on the grass-plots list, 

 Branches of elm into thick arbours twist ; 

 A gallery of elm draw to the end, 

 That eyes can reach, or a breath'd race extend. 



8. The elm delights in a sound, sweet, and fertile 

 land, something more inclined to loamy moisture, and 

 where good pasture is produced ; though it will also 

 prosper in the gravelly, provided there be a competent 

 depth of mould, and be refreshed with springs ; in 

 defect of which, being planted on the very surface of 

 the ground (the swarth par'd first away, and the earth 

 stirred a foot deep or more) they will undoubtedly 

 succeed ; but in this trial, let the roots be handsomly 

 spread, and covered a foot or more in height ; and 

 above all, firmly staked. This is practicable also for 

 other trees, where the soil is over-moist or unkind : 

 For as the elm does not thrive in too dry, sandy, or 

 hot grounds, no more will it abide the cold and 

 spungy ; but in places that are competently fertile, or 

 a little elevated from these annoyances ; as we see in 

 the mounds, and casting up of ditches, upon whose 

 banks the female sort does more naturally delight ; 

 though it seems to be so much more addicted to 

 some places than to others, that I have frequently 

 doubted, whether it be a pure indigene or translations ; 



1 Ut viror est ulmo laetus, ramique comantes, 

 Arduus, alta petens & levi cortice truncus. 

 Ulmum adhibe ordinibus, quoties sudenda per hortum, 

 Sunt serie spatia ingenti, texendaque totis 

 .-Estivos contra soles umbracula campis : 

 Una alias inter texendis aptior ulmus 

 Marginibus spatiorum, exornandoque vireto. 

 Seque adeo series, piano super aequore, tendat 

 Ulmorum tractu longo ; quantum ipsa tuentum 

 Luinina, vel gressus valeant lustrare sequentum. 



Rapinus. 



