APRIL, 1908 
6. Pitcher type, having a long, bare but branched 
trunk. A variation of the willow type. 
I suggest the formation of an association 
whose motive should be the preservation 
of the beautiful trees in the open spaces in 
the country. Secure photographs of fine 
trees and publish them in the country papers. 
Give appropriate and euphoneous names 
to the trees and write up their histories. 
The children of the district should be taught 
to know them by name, and should be en- 
couraged to make pilgrimages to them, to hold 
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6. Willow type. 
The drooping branches are as lithe and graceful as those of weeping willows. 
Very 
picturesque on large lawns 
picnics and little parties under them. And 
so a love for the trees would be cultivated by 
association and the next generation, being 
friends to the trees, there would be no need of 
enacting laws to compel their preservation. 
Little effort seems to have been made to- 
ward propagating any of the types of elms. 
The seedlings in the nursery row show marked 
diversity of form by the time they attain the age 
of four or five years, but none of the forms 
can be depended upon to come true from 
seed: that is, the seed of any one of them will 
produce itself and any of the others. Of 
course, by grafting the types may be multiplied, 
as is done in the case of the weeping form. 
Grafting is a very easy process with the 
elm, and the grafted plant invariably re- 
tains its character so far as form is concerned, 
but colored or variegated foliage sometimes 
has a tendency to beccme green again. A 
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7. In exposed situations, where the wind sweeps, the willow type is seen at its best and gives character to the landscape 
