The Elm. 



upon their trunk. Besides this, iliere is the great expense 

 of suckers and layers. Miller may say what he pleases 

 about stools in a nursery, to get layers from j but recollect 

 the vast difference between the trouble of layers and that 

 of raising the plants from the seed. 



231. Now I know that the Elm is easily raised from the 

 seed. Miller tells us, that there are " some who raise 

 Witch Elms from seed'*^ and why not raise all Elms 

 from seeds ? I have made no actual experiment with the 

 English Elm; but I see the seeds in great abundance, and 

 I can see no reason why one should not come from the seed 

 as well as the other. I have experience with regard to the 

 American Elms, for I have smjcn the seeds^ and have the 

 plants; and now I shall proceed to give my directions for 

 propagating the Elm from seed. 



232. The SEED, which the trees generally bear in great 

 abundance, bears a strong resemblance in point of shape 

 to a fried egg, the white of which spreads itself out in the 

 pan, while the yolk lies in a little raised lump in the middle. 

 That little lump of oblong shape, but wider at one end than 

 the other, is the seed; that which surrounds it is a sort of 

 wing, very thin, which is doubtless intended to convey the 

 seed a distance from the tree. These seeds, which at first 

 are green, become of a pale brownish colour in May, and 

 then they are ripe. 



233. In speaking of the sowing of the seed, the best way 

 will be for me to give an account of what I myself did. The 

 seeds ripen in the month of May, in America, and I had 

 some seed sent thence to me, in that month. Anxious 

 to know whether the seeds would grow, I sowed a part of 

 them in July; and, in the month of September, in spite of 



