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ARBORETUM AND FRUTJCETUM.

PART HI.

2 6. U. monta'na Bauh. The mountain, Scotch, or Wych , Elm .

Identification. Bauh. Pin., 427. ; With. Bot.,279.; Sm. Engl, Bot, t. 1827.; Engl. FI., 2. p. 22.; Hook.Brit. FI., p. 142.; Lindi. Synop., p. 227.; Mackay’s FI. Hibern. PI., 1. p. 241.; Lodd. Cat, ed.1836.

Synonymes. U. gl&bra Iluds., ed. 1., 95.; U. effiisa Sibth., 87., Abbots 55.; U. sc;tbra Milt. Diet. , No. 2.;U. nuda Ehrh. ;' V- campestre Willd. Sp. PI., p. 1324., Fl. Dan., t. 632., Huds., 109., Lightfoot ,1094. ; WychjHazel of old authors.

Engravings. Engl. Bot, t. 1887.; Fl. Dan., t. 632. ; and the plates of some of the varieties in ourlast Volume.

Spec. Char., $c. Leaves pointed, rough, broad, and doubly serrated. Flowerson longish peduncles loosely tufted, 5—6-cleft. Samara somewhat orbicular,slightly cloven, naked. Branches drooping at their extremities ; their barksmooth and even. {Smith, adapted.) A tree, a native of Britain , and ofvarious parts of Europe ; flowering in April and May,and ripening its seedsin June.

Varieties. The varieties of the Scotch elm are extremely distinct, and veryhandsome trees, some well worth cultivating in a useful, and others in anornamental, point of view.

A. Timber Trees.

i U. vi. 1 vulgaris. —Tree spreading; seldom exceeding 40 ft. or 50 ft. inheight, except when drawn up by other trees.

if U. m. 2 rugosa Masters, U. rugosa Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836.—Bark reddishbrown, cracking into short regular pieces, very like that of d'cercampestre. Tree of spreading growth, and moderate size. A treewith this name attached to it, in the London Horticultural Society’sGarden, has much smaller and rougher leaves than the species, andthey are of a deeper green. The tree is of upright growth, and is,probably, not identical with the U. m. rugosa of Mr. Masters.

1 U. m. 3 major Masters.—The tree is of upright and rapid growth, withfew branches; and, in some stages, approaching the habit of thecommon Scotch elm, hut of a more tapering form. The leaves fallalmost a month sooner than those of the following sort. There is avery handsome tree of this variety in the Horticultural Society’sGarden, which we have figured in our last Volume, and which wehave no doubt is identical with the kind described by Mr. Masters.It loses its leaves, in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, beforeany other species or variety.

0. m. 4 minor Masters, as compared with U. m. major, is of a morebranching and spreading habit, of lower growth, with more twiggyshoots; and these are more densely clothed with leaves, which areretained long in the autumn.

i U. m. 5 cebennensis Hort. The Cevennes Elm. —There is a tree of thisvariety in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, which, in 1834, was12 ft. high, after being 10 years planted. Its habit is spreading,likethat of U. m. vulgaris; but it appears of much less vigorous growth.

*£ U. in. 6 nigra, U. nigra Lodd. Cat. , the black Irish Elm, is a spreadingtree, with the habit of U. montana vulgaris, but with much smallerleaves. It is by some considered as a variety of U. campestris ; but,as it ripens seeds in Ireland , we are inclined to think it belongs towhat may be called the seed-bearing section of the genus, and, con-sequently, to U. montana.

t U. m. 1 australis Hort.— The tree of this variety in the HorticulturalSociety’s Garden has rather smaller leaves, and a more penduloushabit of growth, than the species,- but it does not appear to be dif-ferent in any other respect.

B. Ornamental or curious Varieties.

If U. m. 8 pendula ; U. pendula Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1836; U. glabra decuni-bens Hort. Dur.; U. horizontalis Hort.; U. rubra in the HorticulturalSociety’s Garden ; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume. —