1376 ARBORKTUM AND FRUT1CETUM. PART III. 



The timber is excellent ; and the tree forms poles of equal diameter 

 throughout. There are fine specimens of this tree in Minster, 

 Thanet, and at Ickham, near Canterbury. In Mr. May's park, at 

 Herne, where there are several kinds of elms, all of which thrive 

 remarkably well, one recently cut down showed this day (Nov. 

 14. 183G) indications of upwards of JOO years' growth. A portion 

 of the trunk girts 15 ft. for 16 ft. in length. The remaining part of 

 the tree has been appropriated. There is a tree in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, marked U. c. rubra, which, judging from the spe- 

 cimens sent to us by Mr. Masters, appears to be identical with this 

 variety. It is a splendid tree, and, in 1834, had attained the height 

 of 32 ft., with a trunk 7 in. in diameter, after being 10 years planted. 



t U c. 6 vlrens Hort. Dur., or Kidbrook Elm, is almost evergreen in a 

 mild winter; and, as such, is the most ornamental tree of the genus. 

 It must not, however, be depended upon as a timber tree, because, 

 in some autumns, the frost kills the shoots. The bark is red, and the 

 tree of spreading habit. This, like the last-mentioned kind, grows 

 well upon chalk. Notwithstanding its name of Kidbrook elm, a 

 place in Sussex, it is a Cornish variety. There is a fine tree in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, named there U. montana nodosa, 

 which fully answers to the above description of Mr. Masters. 



U. c, 7 cornubiensis Hort, ; U. stricta Lindl. Synop.,p. 227., Lodd. Cat., 

 ed. 1836; the Cornish Elm ; is an upright-branched tree, with small, 

 strongly veined, coriaceous leaves. " Branches bright brown, smooth, 

 rigid, erect, and very compact." {Lindl.) This variety, in the climate 

 of London, is a week or fortnight later in coming into leaf than the 

 common elm. It attains a very great height, and has a somewhat 

 narrower head than the species. There are very large specimens 

 of it at Bagshot Park, 70 years planted, which are 70 ft. high ; the 

 diameter of the trunk 3ft., and of the head 40 ft. In Worcestershire, 

 at Croome, the tree, 50 years planted, is 70 ft. high ; the diameter of 

 the trunk 2ft., and of the head 15 ft. There are young trees in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, one of which, in 1834, after being 

 10 years planted, was 15 ft. high ; and several at Messrs. Loddiges's. 

 Dr. Lindley mentions a subvariety of this sort, with much smaller 

 leaves ; which he has named U. s. 2 parvifolia, and which is the U. 

 s. 2 jnicrophylla of Lodd. Cat., 1836. There are two other sub- 

 varieties mentioned in Lodd. Cat., under the names of U. s. aspera, 

 and U. s. crispa. 



U. c. Ssarniemis ; U. sarniensis Lodd. Cat., 1836; the Jersey Elm', is a 

 free-growing variety, differing very little from the species. There are 

 trees of this kind 20 ft. high in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 



*t U. c. 9 tortuosa; U. tortuosa Lodd. Cat., 1836; ? Orme tortillard, Fr. 

 The twisted Elm. For an account of the uses of this tree, see the 

 list of French varieties, p. 1379. There is a plant in the London 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, 6 ft. high. 



B. Ornamental, or curious. Trees. 



t U. c. \0fo/iis vftriegdtis Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. This variety, which may 

 be called the silver-leaved elm, has the leaves striped with white, 

 and, in spring, is very ornamental. 



* U. c. 1 1 betutefolia, U. ietulasfolia Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, has leaves 



somewhat resembling those of the common birch. 



* U. c. 12 viminalis; U. viminalis Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; and the plate in our 



last Volume ; has small leaves, and numerous slender twig-like 

 branches. It is a very distinct and elegant variety ; and easily recog- 

 nised, either in summer or winter. In some stages of its foliage, this 

 sort is frequently mistaken for a variety of birch. It is quite useless 

 for timber, but makes an ornamental tree, with a character of its 



