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AUTUMN AND WINTER 



a fine typical specimen, the trunk parts fairly low down into 

 several ascending limbs, which ramify evenly outwards into 

 a densely rounded head. There is none of that abrupt 

 transition from thick to thin stems, or from curves to straight 



WYCH-ELM 



lines, which detracts from the beauty of many trees ; every- 

 thing is well-proportioned, to the very tips of the sensitive 

 outer twigs. The pattern of these outer twigs is much like 

 that of the beech ; but even when they are densest and 

 straightest, it is saved from monotony by its perfect propor- 

 tion to all the rest of the tree. The wych-elm's bark is 

 ribbed with straighter and narrower ribs than that of the 



