NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



LETTER II. 



TO THE SAME. 



IN the court of Norton farm-house, a manor farm to the north- 

 west of the village, on the white malm, stood within these twenty 

 years a bijoad-leaved elm, or wych hazel, ulmns folio latissimo 

 scabro of Ray, which, though it had lost a considerable leading 



WYCH ELM. 



bough in the great storm in the year 1703, equal to a moderate tree, 

 yet, when felled, contained eight loads of timber ; and, being too 

 bulky for a carriage, was sawn off at seven feet above the butt, 

 where it measured near eight feet in the diameter. This elm I 



