. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. y and gentry, but is also the common and pre-vailing hedgerow timber in many districts, among whichwe need only to particularize the valleys of the Thamesand the Severn. In this its finest form it shows a tall,spiring habit of growth, exhibiting a straight, continuoustrunk, to which, throughout its entire length, the branchesare subordinate. It grows rapidly, and often attains a heightof from seventy to ninety feet, with a trunk of four or fivefeet in diameter, and thissize it is said frequentlyto reach within a periodof a hundred
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. y and gentry, but is also the common and pre-vailing hedgerow timber in many districts, among whichwe need only to particularize the valleys of the Thamesand the Severn. In this its finest form it shows a tall,spiring habit of growth, exhibiting a straight, continuoustrunk, to which, throughout its entire length, the branchesare subordinate. It grows rapidly, and often attains a heightof from seventy to ninety feet, with a trunk of four or fivefeet in diameter, and thissize it is said frequentlyto reach within a periodof a hundred years. Thespray of the species is lightand slender, the shootsspringing from the stem atan acute angle, and in analternate manner, as shownin the figure. This modeof growth gives to theyoung branches a flat orfan-like form, which, how-ever, becomes less appa-rent as the trees gainage, and as one yearsshoot is added to another,till at length the weightof the spray becomes too great for the branch to sup-port it at its original angle, and it is obliged to take. 106 ULMACE^E.
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