110 ULMACE.E. 



appropriate trees, as well from its rapid and magnificent 

 growth, as its patient endurance of the smoky atmosphere 

 of towns, wherewith to plant or line public walks and 

 promenades, witness the noble rows of the Elm in St. 

 James's Park, Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, St. John's, 

 Cambridge, and various other places in England ; and, 

 wherever the soil is not of too inferior a quality to bring 

 it to maturity, it is one of the most eligible trees to culti- 

 vate in our hedgerows, producing not only shelter and 

 amelioration of climate, and an addition to the beauty 

 and appearance of the landscape, but also a supply of 

 excellent, highly-useful timber. 



If planted in masses, or to form groves, the young trees 

 ought to be kept wide apart, as they require both room 

 and air, to grow with that vigour necessary to produce the 

 full developement of their appropriate form and character. 



The difficulty of procuring sufficient plants in our nurse- 

 ries, and their great comparative cost, would prevent us, 

 if no other reason existed, from recommending it as an 

 intermediate nurse, or secondary tree in mixed plantations, 

 though, for this purpose, its upright and pyramidal growth 

 renders it much better adapted than its relative the Ulmus 

 montana (Scotch, or Wych Elm) which unfortunately (we 

 believe in consequence of its rapid early growth) has been 

 used to an extent fatally injurious to the trees it was meant 

 to foster and protect, throughout the great extent of 

 ground that has been planted in the northern districts of 

 England and in Scotland within the last forty or fifty 

 years. Other trees much better calculated for the office 

 of nurses, as the Scotch Fir, Larch, &c, can be planted 

 at a trifling cost, and the value of these as thinnings 

 at the periods they ought to be removed, would greatly 

 exceed that of the English Elm at a similar age. 



