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in Huntingdonshire, where its peculiar growth and appear- 

 ance is certain to attract the attention of the arboricul- 

 turist, and it has been mentioned to us as a striking 1 



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variety under the name of the Buckden Elm. At Twizell, 

 in Northumberland, it grows with great vigour, making- 

 yearly shoots of many feet in length upon soil of tolerable 

 quality, and some that have been planted about twelve 

 years are upwards of thirty feet high. 



Its growth is upright, and not spreading like that of 

 U. montana, and its leaves, which are pretty large, and of 

 a fine cheerful green, are not only expanded before those 

 of the Wych Elm, but what is of still greater consequence 

 in a park or ornamental tree, are retained much later 

 in autumn. It is propagated by grafts, which may be 

 worked upon the Wych, or any other free-growing species 

 of Elm, and also by layers. Another variety likely to 

 be valuable is the Canterbury seedling, U. g. major, which 

 equals the Huntingdon in quickness of growth, and has 

 the same desirable property of retaining its leaves till late 

 in autumn. It is much more spreading in growth, in 

 which respect it approaches nearer to the U. montana. 



The Scampston Elm, so called from a place in Yorkshire, 

 is another variety, supposed by some to have originated 

 from the U. glabra ; other accounts mention it as originally 

 brought from America. It is a tall, upright-growing tree, 

 with a narrow head, in foliage and appearance partaking 

 of both U. glabra and the Huntingdon Elm. It is seen 

 in several parts of Yorkshire and in Nottinghamshire, 

 particularly about Carlton on Trent, where there are many 

 fine old specimens. It is a tree of very rapid growth, 

 and generally when young makes annual shoots of several 

 feet in length. Its timber, we are informed, is of very 



