Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . The Narrow-leaved Elm.^ betweene Christ Church and Limmington in the New Forrest inHampshire, about the middle of September 1624, from whenceI brought some small plants of it, not a foot in length, which now,1633, are risen up ten or twelve foot high, and grow with me bythe first kinde, but are easily to be discerned apart, by any thatwill looke on both. Dodoens, 837; reproduced in Ger. emac. 1480, 2; copied in Parkinson^1404. 4. The leaves have been attacked by insects. ELMS 41 Wych E
Early British botanists and their gardens, based on unpublished writings of Goodyer, Tradescant, and others . The Narrow-leaved Elm.^ betweene Christ Church and Limmington in the New Forrest inHampshire, about the middle of September 1624, from whenceI brought some small plants of it, not a foot in length, which now,1633, are risen up ten or twelve foot high, and grow with me bythe first kinde, but are easily to be discerned apart, by any thatwill looke on both. Dodoens, 837; reproduced in Ger. emac. 1480, 2; copied in Parkinson^1404. 4. The leaves have been attacked by insects. ELMS 41 Wych Elm. Ulimis montana folio latissimo scabro. Witch Hasell, or the broadestleaved Elme. This groweth to be a very great tree, and also very high,especially when he groweth in woods amongst other trees: thebarke on the outside is blacker than that of the first, and is alsovery rough, so that when there is plenty of sap it will strip or. The Wych Elm.^ peele from the wood of the boughes from the one end to theother, a dozen foot in length or more, without breaking, whereofare often made cords or ropes: the timber hereof is in colourneere like the first; it is nothing so firme or strong for naves ofCarts as the first is, but will more easily cleave; this timber is alsocovered with a white sappe next the barke: the branches or young ^ Ger. emac. 14S1. 3 ; copied in Parkinson, (Stokesedit, of Withering, 1787.) 42 JOHN GOODYER boughes are grosser and bigger, and do spread themselves broaderand hang more downevvards than those of the first; the flowers arenothing but chives, very like those of the first kind: the seed isalso like, but something bigger : the leaves are much broader andlonger than any of the kindes of Elme, usually three or foureinches broad, and five or six inches long, also rough or harsh inhandling on both sides, snipt or indented about the edges, neere ^mifr-,
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