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XI. Notice of a new Variety of Ulmus suberosa, and of a 

 successful Method of Grafting slender Scions of Trees. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knight, Esq. F.R.S.fyc. President. 



Read March 19, 1822. 



My dear Sir, 



I have addressed to you, according to your desire, some 

 Scions of the young seedling Elm, which you saw growing 

 here, and which you agreed with me in thinking likely to 

 afford trees of more rapid growth and more picturesque 

 forms, than any variety of the same species (Ulmus suberosa) 

 at present propagated in the public nurseries. 



I believe you will also think me justified in asserting that 

 I have never seen a tree of any species, which has grown 

 with equal rapidity, in as poor a soil : but I shall leave it to 

 you to describe its form, and the circumstances under which 

 you found it growing.* 



The lateral branches which I send you are long and slender, 

 and probably, not such as the grafters would wish to receive, 

 or are accustomed to use : and 1 shall therefore take this 



* This remarkable variety, which I propose to call the Downton Elm, was 

 planted by the side of a road which lias been formed with the broken rubbish of 

 a stone quarry, in a situation certainly not very favourable to vigorous growth, 

 but it has notwithstanding acquired a size and height full one-third beyond that 

 of several plants taken from the same seed-bed, which are growing in similar cir- 

 cumstances near to it. The habit of the tree is peculiar, its leading branches 

 spread in various directions, and are strong and vigorous, but the side branches 

 are so pendulous as to give the whole tree the character which in varieties of other 

 trees is called Weeping. Sec. 



