Ulmus 



1917 



most of the year. Mr. Ackers tells me that if you put a ferret into the root on one 

 side, it can pass through and come out on the other, which shows that the butt is 

 partly hollow, though the tree looks sound and is about 100 ft. high. It is difficult 

 to explain the origin of this curious freak. 



'from ground 

 ' (and 9' from water 



/,.Cround 

 i. level 



Water level HSie $ 



. .... Mb 



$% Actual span of the two feet ts 5'/? feet. ^ J# t 



Distance from a toB. I2''z feet. 



6"" 



In Hampshire the fertile valleys are full of big trees ; but on the chalk they are 

 of a more stunted character, and are often U. major. The largest true English elm 

 in this county was recorded in 1887 at Broadlands, near Romsey, and, according to 

 Mr. J. Smith of that town, was no ft. by 24J ft. 



Herefordshire, though not so remarkable for the size of its elms as for its oaks, 

 is full of fine trees, some of which were recorded by Dr. Bull in the volume of the 

 Woolkope Transactions for 1 868 ; and in later volumes other elms are mentioned at 

 Croft Castle and Longworth. The largest I have measured is in the deer park 

 at Hampton Court, a tree with two trunks from the same root, girthing 20 ft. and 

 16 ft. respectively, and 125 ft. in height in 1908. 



The elms of Hertfordshire are mostly of the glabrous-leaved species, and are 

 described under U. nitens ; but the finest English elm I have seen is in Hatfield 

 Park, and measured in 1905 120 ft. by 20^ ft. The girth in 191 1 was found by Mr. 

 Barton to be 2\\ ft. At Bayford Church there is a fine tree, apparently quite sound, 

 which was measured by Mr. H. Clinton-Baker in 191 1 as no ft. by 18 ft. 9 in. 

 Near Bayford Lodge another is 93 ft. by 21 ft. 9 in. ; and a record exists that this 

 tree had a girth of 17 ft. 1 in. in 1813. 



Kent has a great variety of elms, which appear to be mostly of a different type 

 to those of the Thames and Severn valleys, and as a rule are planted in parks and 



VII 2 M 



