14 MARCH 1914, Page 20

ELM BLOSSOMS.

[To THE EDITOR Or The SPELT/A.0,4"] seems to me that the elm blossoms this year are more vivid and beautiful than I ever remember them in this part of the country. I wonder which of the poets has alluded to this striking feature of early spring. I cannot find any mention of it in Tennyson, though be noticed so many things of the sort, and so surprised Mr. Holbrook in Cranford by pointing out to him, who had lived all his life in the country, and never noticed it, that ash buds were black in March.—I