 | 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 - 784 pages
...Gilpin says 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... | |
 | William Gilpin - Forests and forestry - 1883 - 428 pages
...the Wych Elm, is perhaps generally more picturesque than the common sort, at least on a foreground, as it hangs more negligently ; though, at the same...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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... with the fir. In autumn also, the yellow leaf of the elm mixes as kindly with the orange of the beech, the ochre of the oak, and many of the other fading hues of the wood. A species of this tree called the Wych Elm, is perhaps generally more picturesque... 