THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTURE. 



AUGUST, 1853. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 

 Art. I. The Scotch or Wych Elm. 



In the cultivation of all kinds of trees and plants, whether 

 ornamental or useful, it is desirable to select such as will 

 thrive with the least care. Especially is this a great desider- 

 atum with those who have but little time to bestow upon 

 their gardens, or who are indebted to their individual labor 

 to keep them in fine order. A tree, therefore, or a plant, 

 which needs continued attention, is consequently less valua- 

 ble for general cultivation, even though it may individually 

 be more ornamental. 



Take a hasty glance at some of our ornamental trees and 

 shrubs, and our fruit trees, and see how much difference there 

 is in this respect. The locust is a very pretty as well as a 

 valuable tree, but it is so subject to the borer, that it is com- 

 paratively Avorthless ; the same may be said of the English 

 ash. Our American elm stands almost at the head of all 

 beautiful trees, but its liability to be attacked by the canker- 

 worm greatly detracts from its merits. The canker-worm 

 also attacks the lime and silver maple, though not so badly 

 as the elm. Among fruit trees, the apple, the plum and the 

 peach require far more care than the pear and cherry ; the 

 former are attacked by borers, canker-worms, aphis, black 

 knots, curculios, yellows, and nobody knows how many more 

 insects or diseases. Among shrubs, the rose is devoured by 

 the slug, the thrips, and the rose bug ] and the snowball is 



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