Lxvi. ulma'ceje,: u'lmvs. 



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B. Ornamental or curious Varieties. 



U. m. 8 pcndida. U. pendula Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836 ; U. glabra decum- 

 bens Hurt. Dur. ; U. horizontalis Hort. ; U. rubra in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden, in 1835. (Plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., 



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loOS. v. m. p^nduIa. 



1st edit., vol. vii. ; and our^g. 1398.) This is a beautiful and highly 

 characteristic tree, generally growing to one side, spreading its 

 branches in a fan-like manner, and stretching them out sometimes 

 horizontally, and at other times almost perpendicularly downwards, 

 so that the head of the tree exhibits great variety of shape. 



^ U. m. 9 fastigidta Hort. U. glabra replicata Hort. Dur. ; U. Fordii 

 Hort. ; U. exoniensis Hort. ; the Exeter Elm, Ford's Elm. (Plate 

 in Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vii.) A very remarkable variety, with 

 peculiarly twisted leaves, and a very fastigiate habit of growth. The 

 leaves, which are ver}^ harsh, feather-nerved, and retain their deep 

 green till they fall offj enfold one side of the shoots. 



^ U. m. 10 crispa. ? U. crispa Wilkl.; the curled-leaved Elm. Of a 

 slender and stunted habit of growth. Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Other Varieties. Several might be taken from catalogues, both timber 

 jtrees and curious plants ; but the former, such as U. montana vegeta Lijid/., 

 we think mav be best classed under U. m. glabra, and the latter are of so 

 little merit, that we hardly think them worth recording in this work. A 

 variety or variation was discovered in a wood near Verrieres, in which the 

 soft wood, or cambium, of the current year's shoots appears of a deep red 

 when the bark is removed. It retains this peculiarity when propagated by 

 extension ; and there are plants of it in the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. 

 A similar variation occurs in i^forus italica. (See p. 708.) 



The Scotch elmhas not so upright a trunk as the Enghshelm; and it soon 

 vides into long, widely spreading, somewhat drooping branches, forming a 

 fge spreading tree. In Scotland, where the tree abounds, both naturally 

 id in artificial plantations, the wood weighs less than that of the English elm, 

 id is more coarse-grained. Nevertheless, Sang observes, it is always prized 

 :xt to the wood of the oak. It is used, he adds, by the ship-builder, the 



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