1396 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICKTUM. PART III. 



(c.) t. 4 erScia Lodd. Cat., ed. IS3 has a tall narrow head, re- 

 sembling that of the Cornish elm; but differing from that tree in 

 having much broader leaves, and a corky bark. 



1 I . (c.) s. .') war. The broad-leaved Hertfordshire Elm, JVood, nursery- 

 man at Huntingdon. — The shoots show some tendency to become 

 corky, which, in our opinion, determines this variety to belong to 

 L '. (c.) suberosa, rather than to U, montana or U. (m.) glabra. 



I l". ((•.) f. (i var. The narrow-leaved Hertfordshire Elm, Wood. — 

 Leaves and shoots differing very little from those of U. campestris. 



Uses. Hie largest trees of U, ,c. s BUberbsa, in the environs of London, are at Hampstead, in 



different small gardens, and in Kensington Gardens. In Dorsetshire, at Mclhury Park, trees, i>0 years 

 planted, are 50 ft. high. In Pembrokeshire, at Stackpole Court, a tree, 50 years planted, is 40 it. 

 high. In Shropshire, at Kinlet, there is a tree 102 ft high ; the diameter of the trunk is 56 in., and 

 of the head .">."> it. In Scotland, in Clackmannanshire, in the garden of the Dollar Institution, a tree, 

 planted, is 30ft high : the diameter of the trunk 12 in., and of the head 1"2 ft. In Cromarty, 

 a: Coul. it is 88 it high ; the diameter Of the trunk U ft., and of the head '20 ft. In Forfarshire, at 

 If onboddo, 70 years planted, it is 45 ft. high. In Ireland, near Dublin, in the Glasnevin Botanic 

 Garden, 35 years planted, it 18 40 ft. high. In Hanover, at Go'ttingen, mj the Botanic Garden, 30 

 yean planted, it is 60ft high. In Bavaria, in the Munich Botanic Garden, 24 years planted, it is 

 50ft high, with a trunk 15 in. in diameter. In Austria, near Vienna, at Kopenzel, 24 years planted, 

 it is IS ft high. In Prussia, at Berlin, in the Botanic Garden, 14 years planted, it is 36 ft. high ; the 

 diameter of the trunk 15 in., and of the head 9ft. In Italy, at Monza, 29 years planted, it is 70 ft. 

 high ; the diameter of the trunk lj| ft., and of the head 40 ft. 



Commercial Statistics. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, transplanted, 

 3 ft. high, 50*. per thousand ; at Bollwyller, 1 franc each, and the variegated 

 variety 2 francs; at New York, 7o cents. 



i 3. U. (c.) ma'jor Smith. The greater, or Dutch cork-barked. Elm. 



Identification. Sm. Engl. Bot., t. 2512. ; Sm. Engl. FL, 2. p. 21. ; Hook. Br. Fl., p. 142. ; Lindl. 



Synops., p. 226. ; Host FL Austr., l.p. ,328. ; Lodd. Cat.ed. 1836. 

 Sy no ny mies. U. hollandica Mill. Diet., ed. 8. No. 5. ; U. major holl&ndica, &c, Pluh. Aim., 393. ; U. 



major, ampli6re folio, <S.r., Du Ham. Arb., 2. p. 368. ; Tilia mas Matth. Palgr., 1. 158. f., Cam. 



Kpit.. 92. f. ; U. latif.Mia Mn/ix. N. Amer. SyL, .3. t. 129. f.2. 

 Engravings. EngL Bot., t. 2542. ; Cam. Epit, 92. f. : N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. 129. f. 2. ; our Jig. 1241. ; 



and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. 



Sjicc. Char., Src. Leaves rough, unequally and rather bluntly serrated. 

 Flowers nearly sessile, 4-cleft. Samara obovate, slightly cloven, glabrous. 

 Branches drooping, their bark corky. (Smith.) The branches spread widely, 

 in a drooping manner, and their bark is rugged, and 

 much more corky than even the foregoing. Leaves on 

 short thick stalks, larger and more bluntly serrated than 

 the last ; rough on both sides, especially beneath ; but 

 the hairy tufts at the origin of each transverse rib are 

 very small. Segments of the calyx short and rounded. 

 Stamens 1. Samara obovate, with a very small rounded 

 sinus, not reaching half so far as the seed. (Id.) This 

 appears to be the kind brought over by William III. 

 from Holland; which, from its quick growth, was, at 

 fir->t, much used for hedges, and formal rows of clipped 

 ; hut, when the Dutch taste in gardening declined, 

 the tree was no longer cultivated ; as its wood was 

 found very inferior to that of most other kinds of elm. ^Vj^S 3, 124,1 

 The elm trees in the old part of Kensington Gardens, 

 Dear the palace, are of this kind: many of them are upwards of 70 ft. in 

 height ; and a nuinher, which have been blown down in different winters 

 rioce 1816, were constantly found rotten at the heart. The Dutch elm is 

 propagated h. layers, and grafting on the U. montana. Price as of the 

 I lin'_' kind. 



I I. U. ' wm'imi o i.i \ lAndl. The Hornbeam-leaved Elm. 

 identification Lindl nop., p - fl , Hook. Brit Fl., i>. 142. 



- I i acuminate, coriaceout, iroi^iy veined, simply crenate. serrated, 



•iiKht hining, but rather tcabroua above ; smooth, beneath. 



hrown, and nearly smooth. Samara — ? A tree. (Lindl.) The locality which 



in jiiiU « from Stratford <>u Avon, on the road to Alcester." 



plan! of this orl 



