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with the Elm. The young tree exhibits the 

 uprightness of growth, and the peculiar angular 

 ramification, together with the shortness of the 

 spray, so especially characteristic of the full- 

 grown Elm. Very beautiful is the form of' the 

 mature tree, (page 80), as seen growing naturally 

 with all its limbs, and without the lopped or 

 maimed appearance too frequently noticeable in 

 our hedge-row Elms. The main stem is sometimes 

 divided near the bole, and sometimes nearly half- 

 way towards the top, but the division is irregular. 

 When the division takes place higher up, the 

 superior length of bole gives to the tree a 

 degree of dignity, which, combined with the 

 rugged bark and the bold angles made by the 

 limbs and branches, serves to make it a striking 

 object. If the bole be short, enormous limbs 

 parting from it stand out from the trunk at, 

 sometimes, a broad angle and with an expansive 

 spread upwards and outwards, almost suggestive 

 of the Oak, with the ruggedness and pictu- 

 resqueness of which old Elms frequently vie — the 

 branches, twigs, and spray twining and twisting 

 in a zigzag fashion, very much after the manner 



