ELMS. 
The American elm is one of the most beautiful trees 
in the world, it is so majestic in size and so graceful in 
form. 
If you do not know the elm tree, get some one to 
point it out to you at once, and you dk 
will feel that you have made a new / 
friend. It is a very 
good thing to make 
friends with the 
trees and to learn 
to know them when 
you see them. 
Elm trees have winged 
seed pods or samaras. The trees 
are covered with pretty, short 
fringes in the springtime — very 
pretty, but not as airy and pretty 
as the maple fringes. The pistillate flowers are fol- 
lowed by samaras that do not grow two 
together, and that have the wing growing 
around them instead of from one end. 
The bark of the elm is very handsome ; 
it is marked quite regularly and is easy to 
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