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hiarked for their age, bulk, and beauty, than 

 the British oaks, which form alike the world's 

 just wonder, the guard of friends, and the 

 scourge of foes. Mr. John Ray, the botanist, 

 mentions an elm which was felled in Sir 

 Walter Bagot's park, in Staffordshire, that 

 measured 120 feet in length, and was at the 

 stool seventeen feet in diameter. When sold, 

 its head alone produced forty-eight waggon- 

 loads of wood to burn, and its trunk, besides 

 sixteen blocks, furnished eight thousand six 

 hundred and sixty feet of planks ; its whole 

 mass was valued at ninety-seven tons. 



Fcecundce frondibus ulmi. VIRGIL. 



Fruitful in leaves the elm. 



This quality in the elm, which ensures a 

 constant shade during the summer months, 

 has secured it a situation in most of the pub- 

 lic, as well as the royal, gardens of Europe. 

 Henry the Fourth of France planted an elm 

 in the Luxembourg gardens of Paris, which 

 stood until the late revolution in that country 

 levelled both tree and monarch to the dust. 



" Nor could old age itself their pity reach, 

 No reverence to hoary barks they knew.", 



Queen Elizabeth, who was contemporary 

 with Henri Quatre, it is said, planted an elm 



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