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WEEPING TKEES, 



AMERICAN TVEEPING TVILLO^r. 



of tliis character. Grafted on a common 

 Ash eight to twelve feet from the ground, 

 it makes a tree of great beauty. The 

 growth is rapid, and it soon forms a large, 

 spreading, drooping, umbrella-like Jiead. 



The Gold-barked Weeping Ash is a very 

 interesting variety ; different from the com- 

 mon sort chiefly in having a yellow bark, 

 which in winter is quite brilliant. 



We have obtained here a seedling Black 

 Ash, which promises to be a handsome 

 drooping tree ; the branches are exceeding- 

 ly slender. 



The Lentiscus-lcaved Weeinng Ash 

 (Fraxinus lentiscifolla pendula) is a fine, 

 spreading, and somewhat drooping tree, 

 well worthy attention ; but is inferior, as a 

 weeper, to the others named. 



Among those recently brought to notice is the American Weeping Willow, from 

 France. It is a trailing species of American Willow grafted on some upright-growing 



sort. When worked six or eight feet from the ground, it forms one of the most 



elegant weeping trees we have yet 



seen. The branches are very slen- 

 der and numerous, and take a 



downward direction at once, like 



the falling spray from a jet d''eau. 



The above is a sketch of a yourg 



tree three years from the graft. It 



is more hardy than the common 



sort, and being a much smaller tree 



will be much more appropriate for 



small lawns and cemetery lots. 

 The Wecjnng Sophora (Sophora 



Japonica pendula) is a remarkable 



and elegant tree. Grafted on tall 



stocks of the Japan Soj^hora, it 



sends downward a head of long, 



slender, green shoots, quite orna- 

 mental, both in summer and winter. 



The foliage resembles that of the 



Laburnum and Locust, to which it 

 allied. It is quite for enough 



north here at Rochester, and does 



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