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may be called the silver-leaved etm, has the leaves striped with white, 
. ..ama, in spring, is very ornamental. 
2 U. ce. V1 betulefolia, U. betulefolia Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836. — Leaves 
somewhat resembling those of the common birch. 
% U.c. 12 vimindlis Hort. Dur. p.66. U. viminalis Lodd. Cat. ed. 
1836. (The plate in Ard. Brit., 1st edit., vol. vii.) — Small leaves, 
and numerous slender twig-like branches. It is a very distinct and 
elegant variety ; and easily recognised, either in summer or winter 
Raised, in 1817, by Mr. Masters. wh ! 
¥ UL c. 13 parvifolia. U. parvifolia Jac. Pl. 
Rar, Hort. Schenbr. iii, p. 261. t. 262.3 U. 
microphylla Pers. ; U. pumila var. 6 (transbai- 
calénsis) Pall. Ross. i. p. 76. t. 48.; U. pamila 
Willd.Sp.P1.i.p. 1326.; U. p. foliis parvis, &c. 
Pluk, Aim. p.293.; U. himilis Enum. Stirp. 
Ruth. p. 180. No. 260. (Our jig. 1392.) — 
A tree, according to Pallas, who mentions 
several varieties of it, very common in all 
the woods of the South of Russia, and vary= 
ing in height from that of a middle-sized tree 
to that of a diminutive shrub, according to 
the soil and climate in which it grows. 
¥ U. ¢. 14 planifolia. U. planifolia Hort. (The 
plate of this tree in Ard. Brit., 1st edit., 
vol. vii.) — A handsome small tree, closely 
resembling the preceding variety. 
U. c. 15 chinénsis. U. chinénsis Pers. i. p- 291. No. 9., Ram. et Schult. 
Syst. Veg. vi. p.303.; Thé de ’Abbé Gallois, Orme nain, Fr. ; 
(Our fig. 1393.) — A low bush, introduced from 
China, but when is uncertain. Rather tender. 
Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
U. c. 16 cuculléta Hort. — Leaves curiously curved, 
something like a hood. Hort. Soc. Garden. 
* U. ¢. 17 concavefolia Hort. — Resembles the preceding 
kind. Hort. Soc. Garden. 
¥ U. c. 18 foliis aireis Hort.—Leaves variegated with 
yellow. 
¥ U. c. 19 ndéna Hort.—A very distinct variety, said not 
to grow above 2 ft. high in ten or twelve years, Hort. 
Society’s Garden. 
Other Varieties. In Messrs. Loddiges’s Catalogue, ed. 1836, 
U. c. foltis maculatis, U.dubia, U. viscosa, and some others, are gx 
enumerated, and in our first edition twelve French varieties 4393. v. c. chinénsis. 
are described, to which might be added, the Orme pedunculé 
of the French, which appears to be our U/Imus effiisa, though we have doubts 
on this subject. 
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1392. U. c. parvifolia. 
The common English elm is, poe more frequently to be found in the 
parks and pleasure-grounds of the English nobility and gentry, than any other 
tree, except the oak. It is of a tall upright habit of growth, with a straight 
trunk, 4 or 5 feet in diameter when fully grown, and attaining the height of 
60 or 70 feet or upwards. The wood loses a great deal in drying: weighing, 
when green, nearly 70lb. the cubic foot; and, when dry, not more than 
484 lb. It is of a brownish colour, and is hard and fine-grained. It possesses 
greater lateral adhesion, and less longitudinal toughness, than that of U. 
montana, and, consequently, does not crack so much as that sort in drying. 
In ship-building it is valuable for forming the blocks and dead eyes, and other 
wooden furniture of rigging, being particularly suitable for these purposes, 
from its hard and adhesive nature, and indisposition to crack or split when 
