. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2614. Fruit of Slippery Elm—Ulmus fulva (X %). 6. scS,bra, Mill. (Cf. montAna, With. U. glitbra, Huds.). Wych Elm. Scotch Elm. Pig. 2616. Tree, attaining 100 ft., with spreading branches forming an oblong or broad round-topped head; without suckers: branchlets pubescent: buds pubescent, rather obtuse: Ivs. very
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2614. Fruit of Slippery Elm—Ulmus fulva (X %). 6. scS,bra, Mill. (Cf. montAna, With. U. glitbra, Huds.). Wych Elm. Scotch Elm. Pig. 2616. Tree, attaining 100 ft., with spreading branches forming an oblong or broad round-topped head; without suckers: branchlets pubescent: buds pubescent, rather obtuse: Ivs. very short-petioled and unequal at base, broadly obovate to oblong-obovate, abruptly acuminate or some- times 3-lobed at the apex, sharply and doubly serrate, rough above, pubescent beneath, 3-6 in. long: fls. clus- tered; stamens 5-6, little exserted: fr. oval or roundish obovate, little notched at the apex, with the seed in the middle, %-l in. long. Europe to Japan. —A variable species of which many forms are citltivated; the follow- ing are some of the most important: Var. atropurpiirea, Spiith. With dark purple foliage. Var. Bfilgica, Hort. Of vigorous growth, forming a broad pyramidal head; Ivs. dark green. Var. crispa, Loud. {17 asplenifdlia, Hort.). A rather slow-growing form with narrow ob- long curved Ivs. incisely serrate with twisted teeth, giving the margin a fringed appearance. Var. Dam- piM, Koch. Similar to var. fastigiata, but with slen- der branches, smaller and lighter foliage. Var. Dam- pi^ri Wr^dei, Hort. Differs from the foregoing by its yellow young leaves. 1898:160. Var. DovSei, Hort. Of vigorous growth and upright pyramidal habit. Var. Sastigiata. Loud. ( U. pyramidiUis, Hort. U. Exo- niinsis, Hort.). Of columnar habit with strictly up- right branches and somewhat twisted, broad dark green leaves. Var. horizontalis, Kirchu. With horizontally spreading limbs and more or less drooping branches. Gn. 17, p. 1901:163. Var. laciniita, Traut
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