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generally more picturesque than the English Elm, we 

 agree in the remark of his tasteful editor Sir T. Dick 

 Lander, that he has scarcely done justice to its merits. 

 This omission or oversight, however, has been repaired 

 by the latter in his appropriate comment upon Gilpin's 

 text : " For our part," he observes, " we consider the 

 Wych or Scottish Elm, as one of the most beautiful 

 trees in our British sylva. The trunk is so bold and 

 picturesque in form, covered, as it frequently is, with 

 huge excrescences, the limbs and branches also are so 

 free and graceful in their growth, and the foliage is so 



