CHAP. CI. ULMvcv.r. £/'lmus. 1 i 05 



It preserves its foliage long after U. (in.) glabra; and its bark is 

 like that of the Huntingdon elm. This tree is also more spreading 

 than that sort. Judging from the specimens of this variety sent to 

 us by Mr. Masters, we should say that it belongs fully as much to 

 U. montana as to U. (in.) glabra. 



*£ U. (m.) g- 5 glandulosa Lindl. — Leaves very glandular beneath. 



¥ U. (m.) g. 6 latifblia Lindl. — Leaves oblong, acute, very broad. 



It U. (m.) g. 7 vricroplujUa H. S. — The tree of this variety in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden is 40 ft. high, and bears a considerable 

 resemblance to U. campestris ; but is evidently of the U. montana 

 family. A tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden, marked U. 

 g. parvifolia (from Germany), seems to us identical with this variety. 



B. Ornamental or curious Trees. 



¥ U. (m.) g. 8 pendula, U. campestris pendula Hort. Dur. ,the Downton 

 Elm, was raised in Smith's Nursery, at Worcester, Mr. Smith 

 states, in 1810, from seeds obtained from a tree in Nottinghamshire. 

 Mr. Knight of Downton Castle purchased some of these trees; 

 and one of them turned out to be that weeping variety which 

 has since obtained the name of the Downton elm. On writing to 

 Mr. Smith, to endeavour to get some information respecting the 

 trees that produced the seed, he informs us in answer, that, after 

 making every enquiry in Nottinghamshire respecting these trees, he 

 finds " they were a mixture of wych and English : probably they 

 were all planted as English ; but, being grafted trees, and being planted 

 by the side of a public road, they might have been broken off at the 

 graft when young. At any rate, the plants produced from the seeds 

 were a complete mixture of the English and wych elms, both by 

 their leaves and their manner of growth. The original trees in Not- 

 tinghamshire have been long since cut down, and the ground built 

 upon. The plants which I raised," he adds, " not meeting with a 

 ready sale, I grafted them with the common English elm, which is 

 more in demand in this neighbourhood." Mr. Knight observes that 

 " the Downton elm is more remarkable for the singularity of its 

 form and growth, than for its value as a timber tree." There is a tree 

 of this variety in the Horticultural Society's Garden 23 ft. high, the 

 branches of which are somewhat pendulous. 



¥ U. (?n.) g. 9 variegdta H. S. has variegated leaves. 



¥ U. (>n.)g. 10 ramurosa Booth. — We have not seen this variety lateh ; 

 but there were plants of it in the Horticultural Society's Garden 

 some years ago ; and we suppose it still exists in the Floetbeck 

 Nurseries. 



Statistics. Young trees of £71mus gpibra in the Horticultural Society's Garden, which, in 1834, 

 had been 10 years planted, were between 30 ft and 40ft. high. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 

 40 years planted, it is 66 ft. high ; diameter of the trunk 2 ft., and of the head 44 ft. In Staffordshire, 

 at Trent ham, 26 years planted, it is 34 ft. high. In Yorkshire, at Grimstcn, 14 years planted, it is 

 25 ft. high. In Perthshire, at Taymouth, 160 years planted, it is 100 ft. high ; diameter of the trunk 

 8 ft, and of the head 90 ft. In Germany, in" the Botanic Garden, Gb'ttingen, it is 30ft. high, with 

 a trunk 1 ft. in diameter. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants of the Huntingdon elm, in the London nur- 

 series, from 4 ft. to 5 ft. high (that is, one year grafted), are 25s. per hundred ; 

 from? ft. to 9 ft. high (that is, 2 years from the graft), 505. per hundred. 



± 8. U. a 'lb a Kit. The wh\\\s\\-leavcd Elm. 



Identification. Kitaib., quoted in Roem. et Schult. Syst. Teg., 6. p. 300. ; Willd. Baumz., p. 518. ; 



Schult. Oestr. Fl., ed. 2., 1. p. 466. ; Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 300. ; Spreng. Syst. Veg., 1. 



p. 930. 

 Spec. Char., fyc. Bark grey brown ; smooth, not chinky. Leaves with downy petioles ; and disks 



oblong, acuminate, 2±in. long, unequal at the base, doubly and very argutely serrate; above, 



deep green ; beneath, downy, and becoming obviously whitish. {Willd. and Schult. Syst. Veg.,v\. 



p. 300.) A native of Hungary ; said to have been introduced in 1834, but we are not aware that 



the plant is in British gardens. 



