300 now TO GROW GOOD timber. 



more or less lax and pendulous, bark of the twigs 

 dark brown, smooth and not corky; of stem when 

 rough, not saberose. 



This tree is reputed wild, but there seems reason to 

 think that this form, and certainly the U. campestris, 

 has been introduced. One reason for this conclusion 

 is that although the 77. montana produces such an 

 enormous amount of seed, yet, in as far as we know, 

 none of this produces young trees, or, in other words, 

 this elm does not appear to increase sporadically. 

 Even in cultivation it is found to be exceedingly 

 difficult to replenish our nursery stock from seed, and 

 hence the cost of young plants, as they have to be 

 produced from suckers, or otherwise layered, and 

 occasionally grown from cuttings. Evelyn says : — 



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 

 translatitious ; and not only because I have hardly ever known any 

 considerable woods of them (besides some few nurseries near Cam- 

 bridge, planted, I suppose, for store), but most continually in tufts, 

 hedge-rows, and mounds ; and that Shropshire, and several other 

 counties, have rarely any growing in many miles together. — Sylva, 

 vol. i. p. 127. 



To this may be added the fact that the most 

 notable elm trees will usually be found at cross-roads 

 —as Maul's Elm at Cheltenham, nearly 40 feet in cir- 

 cumference, or about dwellings ; the fine old trunk 

 at the Slade Earm, near Stroud, Gloucestershire, as 

 much as 50 feet, for some time hollow, and once used 

 as a cider-mill; the fine elms in our parks, as at 

 Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, and others ; and 

 such avenues of elms as seen at Christchurch. 



As a timber tree the Scotch elm is not esteemed 



