THE GIRTH-INCREASE OF DECIDUOUS TREES. 65 
FILIA-EUROPCEA:: No:-85. 
In the south border. Girthed 9 inches in 1887, and for the 
two quinquennia before pruning the rate of increase was only 
134 and 163. In 1897, the second year after the pruning, the 
increase was only 14; but next year it recovered to 164. The 
tree was then transplanted in March, 1899, and, after recovery, 
was retransplanted in spring, 1902. The rate continues very 
low, but the tree is healthy and well clothed. 
ULMUS CAMPESTRIS. -.No. 6, 
In the west border. Girthed 9} inches in 1892 and had a rate 
of 153 increase for four years. After pruning, the rate for three 
years was only 7. Transplanted in 1899, the tree died and was 
cut down in 1900. 
ULMUS MONTANA. No. 21. 
In the north border. Was a fine, handsome tree, 24 inches in 
girth, when far too severely pruned in 1896. The increases for 
the four years—1896—99—were only 6, 24, 4, 14, and the average 
for the next five years was 4. The severe pruning left the tree 
at first almost without a head of foliage, but it gradually began 
to form, and the increases for the two years 1905-06 have 
improved to 8 and 14}. 
In appearance the tree suffers from the loss of its top-shoot 
branch, which had to be cut away low down. Thus the foliage 
at the top is flat, and its general form is cylindrical, equally wide 
below and above, the diameter of the foliage being 15 feet. The 
tree is about 20 feet high and the cylindrical mass of foliage 
begins at 5 feet, where the first branch is given off. 
REMARKS. 
The chief events in the history of the twenty-three trees sub- 
jected to pruning are put together in Table B. The results are 
historical in regard to the trees individually, rather than com- 
parative between one tree and another, because the degree of 
pruning to which they were subjected varied much, and cannot be 
systematised. 
