The Elm. 



a seed, but the graflP is a brand i, and from the graff comes 

 the head of the tree. If the Elder were raised from the 

 seed, I have no doubt of its attaining a height equal to that 

 of the Horse Chesnut. At that height, its flowers would 

 make a grand show 5 and as to the timber, it would, I verily 

 believe, be the rival of the Locust. Its hardness fits it for 

 many purposes, and great durability accompanies this 

 hardness. 



226. There are several American Elders, varying from 

 each other in the size and shape of the leaf, and all varying 

 from ours. Michaux makes no mention of these Elders ; 

 but I have some plants of the American Red Elder now 

 growing in my garden. 



In Latin, Ulmus; in French, Orme, 



227. The botanical characters are : — The flower has a rough permanent em- 

 palement of one leaf, cut at the rim into five points, and coloured within ; 

 it has no petals, but has five awl-shaped stamina twice the length of the 

 empaleraent, terminated by short erect summits, having four furrows and an 

 orbicular erect germen supporting two st^'les which are reflexed, and crowned 

 hy hairy stigmas. The germen afterwards turns to a roundish compressed, 

 bordered capsule, including one roundish compressed seed, 



228. Miller reckons six sorts of Elms known in Eng- 

 land ; but I shall speak of the mode of cultivating this tree, 

 having in my eye the common English Elm, with small 

 leaves, oval, acute-pointed, doubly sawed, and unequal at 

 their base, which Miller calls the Ulmus Stativus, 



229. It is very curious that Miller, after having very 



