CHAPTER V 
The Other 
Hardwoods 
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OF the remaining hardwoods, the elm offers 
peculiarities which distinguish it from the others. 
Scots, mountain, or wych elm (U/mus montana), 
also known locally as wych hazel, is indigenous 
to Britain and seeds freely, but throws up few 
suckers; while the English, or common small- 
leaved elm (U. campestris), a native of Italy 
introduced by the Romans, and now forming per- 
haps the most typical feature in English rural 
landscape, in our cooler climate only forms 
germinable seed during exceptionally warm 
summers. To compensate for this, however, it 
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