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so highly as is the English sort. To begin with, it 

 does not grow such straight even balks ; it is more 

 gnarled and knotty in sawing, and more difficult to 

 work. Selby says that Scottish writers have arrived 

 at a different conclusion, which he conceives to have 

 arisen from the fact that " their estimate has been 

 drawn from a comparison of the wood of TI. montana 

 with that of TI. suberosa (considered by them to be 

 the English elm), which produces a soft, spongy 

 wood, greatly inferior to most other trees of the 

 genus." 



It is used for flooring and rough country work. 

 The peculiar wen-like excrescences that one some- 

 times meets with on the sides of wych elms are 

 carefully preserved and cut into veneers for fine 

 loo-tables, work-boxes, and other purposes, when a 

 peculiar mottled fine-coloured wood is required for 

 fancy-work. 



Some of the finest elms we have examined have 

 been Maul's elm, Piff's elm, the Slade elm, before 

 mentioned, and the following, measured at one and 

 three feet from the ground. 



Circutn. at Circum. at 



1 foot. 3 feet. 



Ulmus montana, Oakley Park, Cirencester ... 38 33 6 



Ditto, Hyde Park — 20 6 



Ditto, Hyde Park — 20 



Ditto, group of twelve in Kensing- 

 ton Gardens, varying to ... — 20 

 Ulmus campedris, Hyde Park, several vary- 

 ing from 20 ft. to — 30 



Ditto, in Oakley Park, from 



15ft. to — 22 



