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DROOPING TREES. 



ing Ash, over the entrance to two elegant 

 mansions, fronting on St. James Park. The 

 branches were extended in a perfectly hori- 

 zontal direction, thickly interwoven, and cover- 

 ing a great space — at least 30 or 40 feet in 

 every direction. It at once occurred to me 

 that such arbors would be great acquisitions 

 to many of those elegant streets of dwellings 

 in the upper part of the city of New- York, 

 in the neighborhood of Washington Square. 

 In many cases, there is just about space 

 enough between the house and street for 

 such an arbor ; and I think that no disposi- 

 tion could be made of it that would contri- 

 bute more to the beauty of the houses, and 

 comfort of the proprietors or occupants. 



AYhen grafted on strong stocks it grows 

 rapidly, frequently making shoots five or six 

 feet in length. A little tree, grafted at eight 

 feet from the ground three years ago, has now 

 a dense top spreading on each side of the 

 trunk six feet, covering an area or circle of 

 twelve feet in diameter in that time. 



The Gold Barked WEEriNG Ash is a 

 new and interesting variety, with golden yel- 

 low bark, which is brightest, and shows to the 

 best advantage in the winter. It is propa- 

 gated in the same way, grows as freely, and 

 succeeds every way as well as the preceding. 

 I have seen it planted much in some districts 

 in France ; and it begins to attract some at- 

 tention in England. 



Centiscifolia 'pendula — lens-leaved weep- 

 ing ash — is a new variety, with long, slender, 

 quite pendulous branches, of a dark brown 

 colour, sprinkled with gray dots, and leaves 

 pointed at both ends in form of a lens. I 

 think this will be rather the most graceful 

 weeping variety of the ash. It is propagated 

 same as the others. 



The WEEriNG Linden — [Tilia alia pen- 

 diila.) — This is a beautiful drooping variety 

 of the Linden, with large, roundish leaves, 

 gray underneath. The branches spring out 



from the trunk in an almost horizontal direc- 

 tion ; and as they increase in length, the ends 

 bend over gracefully, giving a decidedly 

 drooping character to the tree. The ends of 

 the shoots are quite slender, and the leaves 

 have longer petioles than is usual in the Lin- 

 dens. The head is round, and quite symme- 

 trical. All the Lindens bear the knife and 

 shears well; and, therefore, I think this will 

 prove an admirable tree for arbors, and other 

 rustic fanciful decorations ; and it will make 

 a charming lawn tree, occuppng an interme- 

 diate position between round stiff headed trees, 

 as the Horse Chestnut, and flat headed droop- 

 ing trees, like the Weeping Ash. 



Weeping Elms. — There are several fine 

 European weeping varieties. The Weeping 

 Scotch Elvi, (Ulmus montana pendula,) is a 

 variety with large leaves, and irregular, wide 

 spreading and drooping branches. The Weep- 

 ing Smooth Leaved Elm, (Ulmus glabra pen- 

 dula,) is a very graceful drooping variety; 

 leaves the size of the common elm, and 

 smooth and shining on the upper surface. A 

 specimen planted here four years ago, has 

 noAv a fine spreading head, twelve or fifteen 

 feet in diameter. TJlimis snperha — new broad 

 leaved elm — has a distinct drooping habit, 

 and large luxuriant foliage, about the size of 

 our Basswood or American Linden ; the 

 growth of this is quite rapid, and its appear- 

 ance striking. Ulmus viniiialis — or slender 

 twigged elm — is a curious and distinct varie- 

 ty, contrasting strongly with the preceding ; 

 its branches are slender and pendulous, and 

 leaves small and deeply toothed. It has 

 quite as much the appearance of a Birch as 

 an Elm. 



All these pendulous varieties should be 

 grafted on the common upright growing va- 

 rieties, at such height from the ground as 

 may be desired. The American Weepiiig 

 Elm well deserves mention among drooping 

 trees. It combines in its form both the ma- 



