30 New hardy Trees and Shrubs 



appears very common in some parts of Essex, Suffolk, and 

 Norfolk. [The specimens sent us closely resemble those of the 

 preceding sort.] 



U. campestris stricta Hort. Dur. Red English Elm. One of 

 the most valuable timber trees of the small-leaved kinds. Growth 

 very rigid. The timber is excellent; and the tree forms poles of 

 equal diameter throughout. There are fine specimens of this 

 tree in Minster, Thanet, and at Ickham, near Canterbury. In 

 Mr. May's park at Heme, where there are several kinds of elms, 

 all of which thrive remarkably well, one ^recently cut down 

 showed this day (Nov. 14. 1836) indications of upwards of 100 

 years' growth. A portion of the trunk girts 15 ft. for 16 ft. in 

 leno-th. The remaining portion of the tree has been appropriated, 

 U. campestris virens Hort. Dur,^ or Kidbrook Elm, a Cornish 

 variety, is almost 'evergreen in a mild winter; and, as such, is the 

 most ornamental tree of the genus. It must not, however, be 

 depended upon as a timber tree, because, in some autumns, the 

 frost kills the shoots. The bark is red, and the tree of spreading 

 habit. This, like the last-mentioned kind, grows well upon 

 chalk. [There is a fine tree in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, named there U. montana nodosa, which fully answers 

 to the above description of Mr. Masters.] 



U. campestris viminalis Masters. In some stages of its foliage, 

 this sort is frequently mistaken for a variety of birch. It is quite 

 useless as a timber tree ; but makes an ornamental tree, with a 

 character of its own. This was raised in 1817, by Mr. Masters. 

 The stems are erect ; and it does not appear likely to exceed 

 soft, in height. It produces an abundance of pendulous twigs; 

 whence its name. [There is a fine tree of this variety in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, which, in 1834, when we had a 

 drawing taken of it, was 30 ft. high.] 



U. campestris pendula Ho7i. Dur. This variety was originated 

 at Downton, where it is said to have grown into fine timber. 

 With Mr. Masters it grows so irregular, that it does not appear 

 likely to become of value as a timber ti'ee. [We have written 

 to Mr. Knight respecting this variety.] 



U. suberosa Hort. Dur. [_U. campestris suberosa Arh. Brit.'} 

 The Dutch cork-barked Elm. This, except U. americana 

 and the Canterbury seedling ( U. montana major glabra), is the 

 quickest-growing of any that Mr. Masters cultivates, fit is, 

 moreover, valuable, on account of its growing well upon the 

 Kentish chalks ; and it keeps its leaf till late in the autumn. It 

 is a tree of large growth : many of the elms at Windsor are of 

 this kind. 



U. suberosa variegata Hort. Dur. ^U. c. s. variegata Arb. 

 Brit.'] is precisely like the last, except in its variegation. Mr. 

 Masters has seen a few of very large dimensions ; and there is 



