. Our woodland trees . Trees; Trees. 5. THE SMALL-LKAVED TJlmus campestris. Plate 1, Fig. 5. jHB Common, or Small-leaved Elm is perhaps, of all our -woodland Trees, the most stately. Yet to an English mind, this beautiful Tree is more suggestive of culti- vated woodland than of the forest. It is, too, a familiar and a homely Tree, seeming to prefer the neighbourhood of man, and to thrive especially in those artificial boundary-lines, which in rural England we call ' hedges.' There, unfortunately, owing to the necessities of the husbandman, the Elm is usually sadly shorn of its beauty by
. Our woodland trees . Trees; Trees. 5. THE SMALL-LKAVED TJlmus campestris. Plate 1, Fig. 5. jHB Common, or Small-leaved Elm is perhaps, of all our -woodland Trees, the most stately. Yet to an English mind, this beautiful Tree is more suggestive of culti- vated woodland than of the forest. It is, too, a familiar and a homely Tree, seeming to prefer the neighbourhood of man, and to thrive especially in those artificial boundary-lines, which in rural England we call ' hedges.' There, unfortunately, owing to the necessities of the husbandman, the Elm is usually sadly shorn of its beauty by the practice of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Heath, Francis George, 1843-1913. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
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