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favorable reports have been received from practically every section 
of the country. It has proved winter hardy in most trials in 
the Dakotas. Minnesota, New York, Montana, and other Northern 
Fic. 46.—A 6-year-old tree of the Chinese elm (Ulmus pumila) grown near Yuma, 
Ariz. One of the few trees which can survive the trying, climatic conditions of 
that region 
States. Its resistance to drought, alkali, and extremes of tempera- 
ture render it an especially valuable tree in the Great Plains region 
where desirable shade trees are few, in the semiarid South and 
