146 Gilpin's forest sceneky. 



contrast with the other spray, and gives an 

 elegant mode of hanging to the tree. 



This points out another difference between the 

 spray of the Oak and that of the Ash. The 

 spray of the Oak seldom shoots from the under- 

 sides of the branches ; and it is this, chiefly, which 

 keeps the branches in a horizontal form. But 

 the spray of the Ash, often breaking out on the 

 underside of the branch, forms very elegant 

 pendent boughs, f U'- ^f*" "1' • '^1 'i '^-^/-i^'^ij^^ ) 



The branch of the Elm has neither the 

 strength nor the various abrupt twistings of the 

 Oak, nor does it shoot so much in horizontal 

 directions. Such also is the spray. It has a 

 more regular appearance, not starting off at right 

 angles, but forming its shoots more acutely with 

 the parent branch. 



Neither does the spray of the Elm shoot like 

 that of the Ash, in regular pairs, from the same 

 knot, but in a kind of alternacy. It has generally, 

 at first, a flat appearance ; but, as one year's shoot 

 is added to another, it has not strength to support 

 itself ; and, as the tree grows old, it often becomes 

 pendent also, like the Ash : whereas the toughness 



