How is This for Five Months’’ Growth 
{Extract from letter of August 17, 1927.) 
"I wish to state that I ordered two very small Chinese Elms from you 
early in the spring. They were not over thirty inches high—one of them 
has already reached a height of approximately fourteen feet." 
Signed: Tom B. Scott, 
Tom B. Scott and Company, 
Jackson, Miss. 
One Season’s Growth 
(Extract from a letter of January 24, 1928.) 
**/ bought 8 of your 60c-size ( 3-4 ft.) last year, put them out the last 
of February, and some are now 2 inches in diameter.' 
W. A. Thompson, 
Memphis. Texas. 
Chinese Elms 
The Chinese Elm has sprung into popularity faster perhaps than 
any other tree or plant ever introduced by the Department of Agri¬ 
culture whose duty it is to be always on the lookout for anything of 
value. We were the first firm to take the Department seriously when 
it advised nurserymen everywhere and especially in the Southwest, 
to plant it extensively. Last season Dr. Thomas, the head of the 
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, visited our nursery and 
said that we had more Chinese Elms than all of the other Nurseries 
in the U. S. combined. This year, however, other nurseries are growing 
them extensively, but we have 85,000 saleable field-grown trees to 
offer. This does not include small seedlings from the seed beds. 
While we have many remarkable testimonials of the wonderful 
growth in all sections—not only from the southwestern and western 
states—but also from Mississippi, Florida, Pennsylvania, Calgary in 
the British Northwest Territory, we think that we can hardly do 
better than to repeat the description given last year, because most of 
these testimonials are the reports of Government officials or men of 
the highest standing, and none of them interested in the nursery 
business. 
Most Valuable Tree Ever Introduced 
The Chinese Elm in our estimation is the most valuable new tree 
ever introduced by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction 
of the United States Department of Agriculture. It has discovered 
a tree, a really beautiful tree, for all parts of the United States, and 
perhaps the only one that is suited to the arid and semi-arid regions 
of the country. Various names are given to this tree—Chinese Elm, 
Asiatic Elm, Manchurian Elm and Siberian Elm. Also two distinct 
species are called by these names, the Ulmus Pumila and the Ulmus 
Parvifolia. We are growing both species, have gotten each kind from 
several different sources and feel sure that we have them straight, 
notwithstanding there is some confusion as to the identity of each. 
With us the Ulmus Parvifolia has the small, dark heavy leaves, and 
the tree is a much weaker grower than the Ulmus Pumila which has 
larger leaves of a lighter green color and the branches are more open 
and graceful in their growth. Being seedlings, they vary somewhat 
in the size of the leaves and the habit of growth. Most of them are 
upright in growth, others with drooping branches and occasionally 
one is found that is almost weeping. But all are graceful and pleasing. 
It is really an upright, stately and majestic tree, though some people 
think it is naturally a low-growing, bushy tree. The reason that 
many of the older trees are this shape is because all the earlier trees 
sent out by the Department were small seedlings two or three feet high 
and when set out were allowed to branch low, thus forming a short 
