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inoculating the Englifli kind on Scots flocks. For certain foils and 

 fituations, this is a very great improvement ; but where that is 

 not judicioufly coniidered, and the genius of the land where they 

 are planted out for good confulted, it may have an oppofite ef- 

 fect : I fhall therefore (having tried many experiments on tlii.^ 

 favourite tree) be particyilar in mentioning the advantages, or 

 otherways, of propagating the EnglifliElm by grafting, adapting 

 the (locks on which they are grafted to the foils where they 

 ought to be planted, and the improvements in profit and beau- 

 ty that may he obtained from this practice. 



Where the foil is dry, found, and generous, and the climate 

 good, there is no fpecies of the Elm yet familiar to us, equal in 

 beauty to the true fmall-leav'd Englilh, from layers of its own 

 kind ; nor has it any fault, but being fliy to root (when unfldl- 

 fully laid), and in fbormy fituations reclining from the wind ; but, 

 by the prefent fyftem of cultivation, that defecl will be intirely 

 cured, and it will root as abundantly as the Scots Elm, or any 

 other tree, and refill the moil impetuous winds equally vv'-ell. 



Next to the true Englifh, I elleem the Cornifh Elm as the 

 fineft tree of the kind, both for loftinefs of growth, elegance of 

 form, and the lively chearful verdure of its leaves. 



The Englifli Elm grafted on the Scots makes both a beautiful 

 and valuable tree, yet it is ftill inferior in regularity of form, anci 

 l«ftinefs of ftature, to thofe raifed from their own mother ; and 

 as every tree mull in fome meafure partake of the ftock on which 

 it is grafted, fo this has a near refemblance of the Scots Elm in 

 its bark even when young, and when old, like them, grows more 



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