Excerpt from Trees and Shrubbery: Adapted to the Soil and Climate of Nashville, in Relation to Yards, Streets and Public Parks The american OR white elm (u [mus Americana, L.) buds and branchlets glabrous, leaves oval, three to four inches long, sharply and often doubly serrate, flowers in close fascicles. Found in greatest perfection in moist woods, with deep rich soil, where it attains a height of eighty feet. The corky white elm. (u. Racemosa, Thomas.) Bud scales downy, ciliate, and somewhat pubescent, as are the young branchlets; branches often with corky ridges; flowers racemed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.