CHAPTER V 



The Other 

 Hardwoods 



OF the remaining hardwoods, the elm offers 

 peculiarities which distinguish it from the others. 

 Scots, mountain, or wych elm (Ulmus montana), 

 also known locally as wych hazel, is indigenous 

 to Britain and seeds freely, but throws up few 

 suckers; while the English, or common small- 

 leaved elm (/. campestris\ a native of Italy 

 introduced by the Romans, and now forming per- 

 haps the most typical feature in English rural 

 landscape, in our cooler climate only forms 

 germinable seed during exceptionally warm 

 summers. To compensate for this, however, it 



