elmscape

plural elmscapes

1. A landscape dominated by elm trees.

   It is natural to identify with the landscape and to identify with the English landscape has often meant to identify with the English elmscape.

   1969, R. H. Richens, elm, Cambridge University Press, page 266

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   North American authors regarded the elms of the English landscape as scarcely as beautiful nor as shapely as their American counterpart but are "John Bullish in their structure, mighty by girth, but short between the ground and their branches." Henry James considered the lushness of the Warwickshire elmscape sins by excessive of nutritive suggestion.

   1984, The Arboricultural Journal, volumes 8-9, page 177

   The poems also contain much sensitive observation of wildlife and landscape. The numerous references to the elmscapes and waterways of East Anglia make Abbott a sort of verse Constable.

   2024 April 9, Wikipedia contributors, “Claude Colleer Abbott”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation