 | Henry Phillips - Botany - 1823 - 358 pages
...says Mr. Gilpin, in hia Forest Scenery, " is perhaps generally more picturesque than the common sort, as it hangs more negligently; though, at the same...masses of light, which we admire in the common elm." The Dutch elm, ulmus suberosa. This variety was brought from Holland at the beginning of King William's... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1834 - 432 pages
...species of this tree called the Wych Elm, is perhaps generally more picturesque than the common sort, as it hangs more negligently, though at the same time,...common elm, that its bark is somewhat of a lighter hue. The wych elm is a native of Scotland, where it is found not only in the plains and valley of the Lowlands,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 796 pages
...Oilpin say* of the'wych elm, that it " is, perhaps, generally more picturesque than the common sort, as it hangs more negligently, though, at the same...common elm, that its bark is somewhat of a lighter hue. The wych elm is a native of Scotland, where it is found, not only in the plains and valleys of the... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - Trees - 1846 - 542 pages
...speaking of this tree, says, that it " is, perhaps, generally more picturesque than the common sort, as it hangs more negligently, though, at the same...tree in company with the common elm, that its bark is of a somewhat lighter hue." On this passage, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder observes. " We are disposed to... | |
 | sir Henry Seton Steuart (1st bart.) - 1848 - 638 pages
...a judge not easily satisfied in that particular. On a foreground, he says, it is unquestionably so, as it hangs more negligently ; though at the same time, with this negligence, it loses in some measure that * NOTE VI. happy surface for catching masses of light, which in the other is so much... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - Botany - 1853 - 596 pages
...says of the Wych elm, that it " is, perhaps, generally more picturesque than the common elm, (?7'lmus campestris,) as it hangs more negligently, though...common elm that its bark is somewhat of a lighter hue." (Gilpin ' s Forest Scenery.) On this opinion Sir Thomas Dick Lauder observes, "We are disposed to think... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1883 - 428 pages
...common sort, at least on a foreground, as it hangs more negligently; though, at the same time, with £ 2 this negligence it loses in a good degree that happy...masses of light which we admire in the common Elm, and which adapts it better to a distance. We observe, also, when we see this tree in company with the... | |
 | George Simonds Boulger - Trees - 1907 - 310 pages
...in a park. Gilpin says of it that it " is, perhaps, generally more picturesque than the common sort, as it hangs more negligently, though, at the same...Elm, that its bark is somewhat of a lighter hue." Commenting on this passage, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder remarks:— " We are disposed to think that Mr.... | |
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Elm, is perhaps generally more picturesque than the common sort, as it hangs more negligently, though at the same time, with this negligence, it loses in a good degree that happy surface for catching masses of light which we admire in the common elm.... 