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ment of the trees, a fact sufficiently proved by the mag- 

 nificent and rapid growth of the English Elm in England 

 upon its own stock and roots; on the contrary, we are 

 inclined to think that even under every advantage of soil 

 and situation, the English Elm, grafted upon the IT. 

 montana, would never become so fine a tree, or attain 

 the dimensions of an ungrafted plant. 



The only circumstance under which grafting might prove 

 advantageous, is where the soil is of an inferior, cold, 

 and clayey nature, and where the Elm would not be 

 likely to thrive upon its own stock ; in this case we 

 would recommend for a stock a tree much more nearly 

 allied if not a variety of the species, and which grows 

 and thrives upon very inferior land and strong clays ; we 

 allude to the oft-despised and neglected U. suberosa. 

 Upon this stock, the English Elm, we believe, might 

 be advantageously planted as a hedge-row tree, or in 

 narrow belts of plantations in the cold clayey districts of 

 the north of England and Scotland, where it would be 

 in vain to try it upon the stock of U. montana. 



No tree succeeds better when planted of a considerable 

 age and size than the English Elm. In England, from 

 the comparative coolness and moisture of the climate, this 

 can be done without removing the side branches, or head- 

 ing the plants, an operation they almost invariably undergo 

 in France and other parts of the Continent, which makes 

 them appear, for the first year or two, like mere stumps 

 or truncheons stuck in the ground. The plants, however, 

 under this treatment, grow rapidly and make fine trees ; 

 their eventual developement not being injuriously affected 

 by it. 



In the south of France, and near Paris, Loudon informs 

 us that the U. campestris occasionally ripens seed, which 



