. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 718 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM 1394. V. camp^stris. exposed to sun or weather. The great use of the English elm, however, in ship-building, is for keels. In light land, especially if it be rich, the growth of the tree is very rapid; but its wood is light, porous, and of little
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 718 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM 1394. V. camp^stris. exposed to sun or weather. The great use of the English elm, however, in ship-building, is for keels. In light land, especially if it be rich, the growth of the tree is very rapid; but its wood is light, porous, and of little value compared with that grown upon strong land, which is of a closer stronger texture, and at the heart will have the colour, and almost the hardness and heaviness, of iron. The common elm produces abundance of suckers from the roots, both near and at a great distance from the stem ; and throughout Europe these afford the most ready mode of propagation, and that which appears to have been most gene- rally adopted till the establishment of regular commercial nurseries ; the suckers being procured from the roots of grown up trees, in hedgerows, parks, or plantations. In Britain, the present mode of propagation is by layers from stools, or by grafting on the U. montana. The layers are made in autumn, or in the course of the winter, and are rooted, or fit to be taken off, in a year. Grafting is generally performed in the whip or splice manner, close to the root, in the spring; and the plants make shoots of 3 or 4 feet in length the same year. Budding is sometimes performed, but less frequently. The great advantage of grafting is, that the plants never throw up suckers, unless â indeed the graft is buried in the soil. The tree bears the knife better than most others, and is not very injurious to grass growing under it. The leaves are eaten by most kinds of cattle. t 2. U. (o.) SUBERO^SA Mcench. The Coxk-barked Elm. Identificaticm. Ehr. Arb., 142. ; Willd. Sp. PL, p. 1324.; Engl.
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