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TREES GROWING IN MOIST SOIL. 



Beadle and a well dried specimen that the accompanying 

 description was written. 



AMERICAN ELM. WHITE ELM. {Plate L VI.) 

 Ulmns Americana. 



FAMILY SHAPE HEIGHT RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 



Elm. Ili'<xii^ roiiiui^hroad; ioo-i2oyiW. Neiv l-'oitiuiland south- March., April, 

 brunches, pendulous. ward to Flu. and west- P'ruit; May. 



ward to Texas. 



Bark : ashy grey ; flaky. Bra)tches : light green wlien young and without corky 

 ridges. Buds : flattened; smooth, or slightly pubescent. Stipules: linear to 

 lanceolate. Lcavfs : simple ; alternate ; with smooth petioles ; oval, orobovate, 

 with taper-pointed apex and rounded or slightly jjointed base; unequal sided; 

 coarsely or doubly serrate. Kibs : straight; conspicuous; veins and veinlets 

 numerous ; glabrous, or slightly rough above, i^ubescent underneath and be- 

 coming smooth at maturity. Flnvers : direcious ; minute ; growing in close, 

 drooping clusters on jointed stalks from lateral buds and appearing before the 

 leaves. Su/iiiOtis : oval or ovate; glabrous, with thickly fringed margins. 



The American elm is very grace- 

 ful and stately. Its great arching 

 limbs uphold a spray of dark and 

 beautiful foliage which appears on 

 the landscape like a suddenly ar- 

 rested fountain. It is not strange 

 that so much sentiment clings about 

 lM^^%xi\i"h' tliese trees ; for at times they have 

 it'Kv'^Jw^"'-^- been associated with thrilling events 

 fmXw%^t, in their country's history. It was 

 ■ •S-i '< under the shade of a great elm at 

 Cambridge, Mass., that Washington 

 stepped forward, drew his sword, 

 and in a few words assumed com- 

 mand of the American army. The 

 tree, after that eventful morning, 

 was known as the "Washington 

 Elm " ; and longer than any other 

 being it remained to testify to the younger generations that 

 it had been a witness of the scene. Although not at all 

 a phenomenal tree in size, the estimate was at the tiine niado 



Uhnus A vterichna. 



