b. 
THE SMALL-LEAVED ELM. 
Ulmus campestris. 
Puats 1, Fie. 5. 
HE Common, or Small-leaved Elm 
WA ig perhaps, of all our woodland 
Trees, the most stately. Yet 
to an English mind, this beautiful 
Tree is more suggestive of culti- 
vated woodland than of the forest. 
It is, too, a familiar and a homely Tree, 
seeming to prefer the neighbourhood of 
x! man, and to thrive especially in those 
artificial boundary- lines, which in rural England 
we call ‘hedges.’ There, unfortunately, owing to 
the necessities of the husbandman, the Elm is 
usually sadly shorn of its beauty by the practice of 
