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gardener here, considered this to be the best variety for seaside planting, as it bears 

 the wind well. 



In the Edinburgh Botanic Garden there are two trees, nearly equal in size, 

 about 65 ft. by 5 ft. 4 in. in 1908, with small leaves, which seem to be a variety of 

 the Cornish elm. 



In Ireland, especially in the south, this tree comes to great perfection. In the 

 Blackwater valley, I measured in 19 10, in a meadow two miles east of Lismore, a 

 splendid tree, about 100 ft. by 15 ft. In the avenue to the castle, there are some 

 very tall and slender elms, one of which was no ft. by 10 ft. At Mallow Park, the 

 seat of Mrs. Norris, I saw in 1909, some fine elms of similar type, one of which 

 measured 95 ft. by 12 ft. 10 in. ; another 95 ft. by 10 ft.; and a third, a very 

 straight tree, about 90 ft. by 6 ft. The Cornish elm is probably native in the south 

 of Ireland, where there are very many old trees of this variety. (H. J. E.) 



3. Var. Wheatleyi, Simon- Louis, Cat. 1869, p. 98. Wheatley or Jersey Elm. 



(?) Ulmus sarniensis, Loddiges, ex Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iii. 1376 (1838). 



A pyramidal tree with, stiff ascending long branches, and a narrow pointed 

 crown. Leaves (Plate 412, Fig. 21) similar to those of the Cornish elm, but 

 broader in proportion to their length, and glandular on the petiole and on the 

 midrib, veins, and surface beneath, with less conspicuous axil-tufts. Flowers as in 

 var. stficta, but with white stigmas. Fruit rarely ripening, but when mature similar 

 to that of U. nitens, with the apex of the seed touching the small circular closed 

 notch. From seed collected by Mr. J. F. Rayner from a tree in Southampton 

 Cemetery, I raised forty-three plants in 1909, half with opposite, and half with 

 alternate leaves. These now look a mixed lot, differing in the size of the leaves 

 and in the presence or absence of corky ridges on the stem ; and are not uniform 

 like the seedlings of the Cornish elm. 



This tree is generally regarded as a form of the Cornish elm, of which it is 

 probably a seedling ; but it differs in the characters noted. It is now generally sold 

 in nurseries as the Wheatley elm ; and is occasionally known in Germany and 

 Holland under the erroneous name, U. campestris, var. monumentalis} The 

 Wheatley elm is so commonly known as the Jersey or Guernsey elm, that in all 

 probability it is identical with the tree propagated by Loddiges as U. sarniensis, but 

 Loudon's description of this is inadequate, and points rather to some form of the 

 English elm. 



A form of the Wheatley elm with leaves of a fine yellow colour, said to last till 

 autumn, originated in 1900 in the Chester nurseries, and is now sold by Messrs, 

 Dicksons as the " golden Cornish elm." (A. H.) 



The finest Wheatley elm ^ is probably one growing in the public garden on 



1 The Wheatley elm is well figured by Springer in Mitt. Deut. Dend. Ges. 1910, p. 271, fig. 273; where Beissner 

 points out that the true var. monumeiitalis, Rinz, ex Petzold and Kirchner, Arb. Muse. SS4 (1864). is a columnar tree, with 

 a few upright main branches and numerous short twigs bearing dense crowded dark green leaves, which was propagated by 

 Rinz at Frankfort from a sucker of U. nitens, var. suberosa. A beautifiil narrow pyramidal tree in Spath's nursery, called 

 U. campestris cornubiensis, bears leaves similar in size and appearance to a common form of U. nitens, and differs firom the 

 Wheatley or the true Cornish elm. 



2 A good specimen at Kew is figured in Card. Chron. xli. 150, fig. 67 (1907). 



