Crossword-Solution: ULMUS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Though the beard be only made a distinction of sex, and sign of masculine heat by _Ulmus_,[CO] yet the precocity and early growth thereof in him, was not to be liked in reference unto long life.

Now, if you expect me to hold forth in a “scientific” way about my tree-loves,—to talk, for instance, of the Ulmus Americana, and describe the ciliated edges of its samara, and all that,—you are an anserine individual, and I must refer you to a dull friend who will discourse to you of such matters.

Now, if you expect me to hold forth in a "scientific" way about my tree-loves,--to talk, for instance, of the Ulmus Americana, and describe the ciliated edges of its samara, and all that,--you are an anserine individual, and I must refer you to a dull friend who will discourse to you of such matters.

The English elm (_Ulmus campestris_) as we see it in Boston comes out a little earlier perhaps, than our own, but the difference is slight.

Clotzsch[57] crossed _Pinus sylvestris_ and _nigricans, Quercus robur_ and _pedunculata, Alnus glutinosa_ and _incana, Ulmus campestris_ and _ effusa_; and the cross-fertilised seeds, as well as seeds of the pure parent-trees, were all sown at the same time and in the same place.