. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LLFE. 123 Elm-trees. ment; but very barren results have, up to present times, attended their la- bours. ELM TKEES. Tliere are two species commonly to be found in this countr)*. The English elm (Uliniis i-a»i/>esiris), and the Wych Elm, (Uliniis fiionlaiia). Other varieties are occasionally to be met with, but are rare. The English elm grows rap
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. ALL ABOUT COUNTRY LLFE. 123 Elm-trees. ment; but very barren results have, up to present times, attended their la- bours. ELM TKEES. Tliere are two species commonly to be found in this countr)*. The English elm (Uliniis i-a»i/>esiris), and the Wych Elm, (Uliniis fiionlaiia). Other varieties are occasionally to be met with, but are rare. The English elm grows rapidly into stature, and is probably the most profitable of all trees raised for timber on fat unctuous soils, as it arrives at great bulk in a comparatively short space of time, and affords serviceable boards and planks for almost all ordin- ary purposes. The presence of the tree may be taken as a tolerably sure indication of good land, for it delights in deep loams, leaving poor stiff clays to the oak, and light sands to the fir. Elms are of lofty growth ; a remark- ably handsome one at Croombe Abbey, in Warwickshire, being 150 feet high. Seventy or eighty years is about the full jieriud of its maturity, but several ex- isting specimens including the one named, arc 200 years old. An immense bulk is sometimes, developed in excel- lent situations. At Hatfield, Herts, an elm,girting 48 considered to con- tain 493 feet of timber. The price of elm timber averages from is. to Is. 6d. per foot. The Wych Elm is of slower growth and arrives at less size, but yields more valuable wood. ELYMUS. A genus commonly known as Lyme Grasses, composed of two sections of dissimilar habits: the sea-sand, root- spreading variety, of which E. atmaritis is the prominent member; and the other fibrous-rooted wood grasses, of which E. Eurofaus is our only native spe- cies. The sea-sand Lyme grass has been termed "the sugar-cane of Bri- tain," on account of the large quantity of sacchari
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