. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. monly called the KidbrookElm, and nearly an evergreen. This is a fine ornamentaltree, but rather delicate and tender in constitution, theyoung shoots being sometimes injured by frost in thevicinity of London. U. c. Cornubiensis, U. c. stricta of Lindley. The CornishElm. A lofty tree, with a narrower head than the species,and with upright branches, and small coriaceous strongly-veined leaves. Later by a fortnight in coming into leafthan the common Elm. Loudon mentions specimens atBagshot Park, seventy years planted, which are ninet
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. monly called the KidbrookElm, and nearly an evergreen. This is a fine ornamentaltree, but rather delicate and tender in constitution, theyoung shoots being sometimes injured by frost in thevicinity of London. U. c. Cornubiensis, U. c. stricta of Lindley. The CornishElm. A lofty tree, with a narrower head than the species,and with upright branches, and small coriaceous strongly-veined leaves. Later by a fortnight in coming into leafthan the common Elm. Loudon mentions specimens atBagshot Park, seventy years planted, which are ninetyfeet high, with a diameter of trunk averaging three feet. As ornamental or curious varieties, but valueless astimber, we have the U. c. betulafolia, Birch-leaved Elm,the U. c. foliis variegatis, Silver, or Striped-leaved Elm,and the U. c. viminalis, a beautiful variety raised fromthe seed of the English Elm by Mr. Masters in 1817. For the statistics of the Elm we must, for want of space,refer our readers to Loudons Arboretum Britannicum. CORK-BARKED ELM. 117. Ulmus Suberosa. Aucr. CORK-BARKED ELM. Ulmus suberosa Ehrh. Arb. Eng. Flor. ii. p. Br. Flor. p. Syn. p. Arb. Brit. ch. ci. p. 1395. Though most of our botanical authors consider the to be a distinct species, drawing their conclusion, 118 ULMUS. no doubt, from the difference of habit, form, and otherpeculiarities that it exhibits, as contrasted with the described in the preceding pages, still we deemourselves justified in withholding unqualified assent to thisopinion, knowing the sportive nature of the seed of theElm, and the varieties it is apt to produce, and are ratherinclined to favour the opinion now entertained by many,that this tree is only one of the protean forms of theU. campestris, and from which it may be supposed itoriginally sprang. But however the fact may be, whetherit actually represents a species, or is only a variety, isa circumstance
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