. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. 498 ULMUS CAMPESTKIS. IK', }'' !l\<\ i roughness of age, few of its forest brethren, (though, properly sneaking, it is not a forester,) excel it in grandeur and beauty. The elm is the first'tree that salutes the early spring, with its light and cheerful green; a tint which contrasts agreea- b
. The trees of America [microform] : native and foreign, pictorially and botanically delineated and scientifically and popularly described, being considered principally with reference to their geography and history, soil and situation, propagation and culture, accidents and diseases .... Trees; Arbres. 498 ULMUS CAMPESTKIS. IK', }'' !l\<\ i roughness of age, few of its forest brethren, (though, properly sneaking, it is not a forester,) excel it in grandeur and beauty. The elm is the first'tree that salutes the early spring, with its light and cheerful green; a tint which contrasts agreea- bly with the oak, whose early leaf has generally more of the olive cast. We see them sometimes in fine harmony together, about the end of April and the begin- nmg of May. VVe often, also, see the elm planted with the Scotch pine. In the spring. Its light-green is very discordant with the gloomy hue of its companion- but, as the year advances, the elm leaf takes a darker tint, and unites in har- mony with the pine. In autumn, also, the yellow leaf of the elm mixes as kindly with the orange of the beech, the ochre of the oak, and many of the other fading hues of the wood. ***** The elm throws out a beautiful bloom, in the form of a spicated ball, about the bigness of a nutmeg, of a dark- crimson colour. This bloom sometimes appears in such profusion as to thicken and enrich the spray exceedingly, even to the fulness almost of foliage. * * * * * The branch of the elm has neither the strength nor the various abrupt twistings of the oak; nor does it shoot so much in horizontal directions. Such, also, is the spray. It has a more regular appearance, not starting off at right- angles, but forming its shoots more acutely with the parent branch; neither does the spray of the elm shoot, like the ash, in regular pairs from the same knot, but \n a kind of allernacy. It has, generally, at first, a flat appearance; but, as one year s shoot is added to another, it has not strength to support it
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