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ARBORETUM AN!) FRUTICETUM.

PART III,

The timber is excellent; and the tree forms poles of equal diameterthroughout. There are fine specimens of this tree in Minster,Thanet, and at Ickham, near Canterbury. In Mr. May’s park, atHerne, where there are several kinds of elms, all of which thriveremarkably well, one recently cut down showed this day (Nov.14. 1836) indications of upwards of 100 years’growth. A portionof the trunk girts 15 ft. for 16 ft. in length. The remaining part ofthe tree has been appropriated. There is a tree in the HorticulturalSociety’s Garden, marked V. c. rubra, which, judging from the spe-cimens sent to us by Mr. Masters, appears to be identical with thisvariety. It is a splendid tree, and, in 1834, had attained the heightof 32 ft., with a trunk 7 in. in diameter, after being 10 years planted.

S U c. 6 virens Hort. Dur., or Kidbrook Elm, is almost evergreen in amild winter ; and, as such, is the most ornamental tree of the genus.It must not, however, be depended upon as a timber tree, because,in some autumns, the frost kills the shoots. The bark is red, and thetree of spreading habit. This, like the last-mentioned kind, growswell upon chalk. Notwithstanding its name of Kidbrook elm, aplace in Sussex, it is a Cornish variety. There is a fine tree in theHorticultural Society’s Garden, named there U. montana nodosa,which fully answers to the above description of Mr. Masters.

lU.c. 7 cornubiensis Hort.; U. strieta Lindl. Synop., p. 227., Lodd. Cat,,ed. 1836; the Cornish Elm; is an upright-branched tree, with small,strongly veined, coriaceous leaves. “ Branches bright brown, smooth,rigid, erect, and very compact.” ( Lindl,) This variety, in the climateof London , is a week or fortnight later in coming into leaf than thecommon elm. It attains a very great height, and has a somewhatnarrower head than the species. There are very large specimensof it at Bagshot Park, 70 years planted, which are 70 ft. high; thediameter of the trunk 3ft., and of the head 40 ft. In Worcestershire ,at Croome, the tree, 50 years planted, is 70 ft. high ; the diameter ofthe trunk 2 ft., and of the head 15 ft. There are young trees in theHorticultural Society’s Garden, one of which, in 1834, after being10 years planted, was 15 ft. high; and several at Messrs. Loddiges's.

, Dr. Lindley mentions a subvariety of this sort, with much smallerleaves ; which he has named U. s, 2 parvifolia, and which is the I.s. 2 microphjftla of Lodd. Cat. , 1836. There are two other sub-varieties mentioned in Lodd. Cat. , under the names of U. s. aspera,and U. s. crispa.

¥ U. c, 8 sarniensis ; U. sarniensis Lodd. Cat. , 1836; the Jersey Elm', ls afree-growing variety, differing very little from the species. There aretrees of this kind 20 ft. high in the Horticultural Society’s Garden.

t U. c. 9 tortuosa; U. tortuosa Lodd. Cat. , 1836; ? Orme tortillard, ftThe twisted Elm. — For an account of the uses of this tree, seethelist of French varieties, p. 1379. There is a plant in the LondoaHorticultural Society’s Garden, 6 ft. high,

B. Ornamental, or curious, Trees.

¥ U. c. 10 foliis variegatis Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836. — This variety,which ®afbe called the silver-leaved elm, has the leaves striped with wl> lte ’and, in spring, is very ornamental.

i U. c. 11 b etulcefblia, U. SetulaefiMia Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836, has leaf®somewhat resembling those of the common birch.

¥ U. c. 12 viminalis ; U. viminalis Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836; and the plate ino# rlast Volume ; has small leaves, and numerous slender twig-l®branches. It is a very distinct and elegant variety ; and easily real'nised, either in summer or winter. In some stages of its foliage, tw>sort is frequently mistaken for a variety of birch. It is quite uselefor timber, but makes an ornamental tree, with a character ot >■