28 MARCH 1914, Page 17

ELM BLOSSOMS.

fTo 1121i EDITOR or THU ''SP IZCSASOIL"]

Sut,—A correspondent in your last issue says that he cannot find any mention of elm blossoms in the work of the present Poet Laureate. May I quote the following P-

" Now ruddy are the elm tops .against the blue sky,

The pale larch donneth her jewelry. Red fir and black fir sigh,

And I am lamenting the years gone by."

When William Morris wrote, "The elm tree flowers fell like tears," did he not mean the flowers of the wych elm P They are not red, but a very pale green, and they fall in