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situations. This variety appears, unfortunately, to have 

 been frequently substituted in the northern parts of Eng- 

 land for the species. Its wood is of inferior quality. 



U. c. alba of Masters, a valuable variety of a free and 

 upright growth, the bark of the young shoots tinged with 

 red, the leaves shining, doubly and deeply serrated. Tim- 

 ber good. 



U. c. acuti/olia, Masters, has a growth when young 

 similar to that of the last ; in old specimens the leaves 

 are more tapering and the branches pendulous. Common 

 in parts of Suffolk and Norfolk. Timber of good quality. 



U. c. virens, Hort. Diet., commonly called the Kidbrook 

 Elm, and nearly an evergreen. This is a fine ornamental 

 tree, but rather delicate and tender in constitution, the 

 young shoots being sometimes injured by frost in the 

 vicinity of London. 



U. c. Cornubiensis, U. c. stricta of Lindley. The Cornish 

 Elm. A lofty tree, with a narrower head than the species, 

 and with upright branches, and small coriaceous strongly- 

 veined leaves. Later by a fortnight in coming into leaf 

 than the common Elm. Loudon mentions specimens at 

 Bagshot Park, seventy years planted, which are ninety 

 feet high, with a diameter of trunk averaging three feet. 



As ornamental or curious varieties, but valueless as 

 timber, we have the U. c. betulafolia, Birch-leaved Elm, 

 the U. c. foliis variegatis, Silver, or Striped-leaved Elm, 

 and the U. c. viminalis, a beautiful variety raised from 

 the seed of the English Elm by Mr. Masters in 1817. 



For the statistics of the Elm we must, for want of space, 

 refer our readers to Loudon's " Arboretum Britannicum." 



