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BRITISH FOREST TREES. 



twisting the stems of trees tight up with round ropes, 

 the screw circles of the rope not being quite close to 

 each other ; the ropes to remain several seasons, then 

 to be kept off for a season or two, and again applied. 

 The practice of forming w^arty excrescences might 

 be combined with that of forming waiy fibres, with 

 the finest effect. Of course, those trees with timber 

 of rich colour, and susceptible of high polish, would 

 be the most suitable for undergoing this process. 

 U, campestris also throws out a brush, but from the 

 great inferiority of the timber in beauty, and from 

 its unfitness for cabinet-work, it would be useless to 

 encourage it by art. Some plants of montana, not 

 covered with brush, have a curious unevenness (laced 

 appearance) of the timber in the stem, which renders 

 it a beautiful cabinet plank. 



Narrow-leaved or English Elm — Ulmus campestris. 



There are few Scotchmen, as they migrate south- 

 ward, who have failed to remark the tame subdued 

 appearance of the landscape of the middle and south 

 of England, where a number of straggling tufted- 

 headed poles, along with windmill towers, occupy 



