CORK-HARKED ELM. 



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to that of most other kinds of Elm. Loudon, in the 

 " Arboretum Britannicum," informs us that the Elm trees 

 in the old part of Kensington Gardens are of this kind, 

 many of them are upwards of seventy feet high, and 

 he remarks that of a number which have been blown 

 down since 1816, all have been found rotten at heart. 

 At Bolton, near Belfast, the seat of Sir R. Bateson, Bart., 

 we observed several fine trees apparently of this variety, 

 growing along the margin of the river. A reduced leaf 

 from one of these trees is represented below. 



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