WEEriNG TEEE3. 



from the same source that we did, but got it wrong. It is yet very scarce. It is 

 remarkable that it can not be confounded with any other sort. 



The White Grape is the largest and finest of all white Currants. Bunches long, 

 and berries very large and pale. Plant a slow grower, with stout, irregular shoots, 

 and dark green, reflexed leaves. It is called in France Cha^selas, and in this country 

 has been confounded, to some extent, with the White Dutch. 



The Att factor is a large, white Currant — nearly or quite as large as the White 

 Grape. The plant is moderately vigorous, with remarkably deeply lobed, and sharplv 

 and deeply serrated foliage. 



The Victoria, or Houghton Castle, is a pale red variety, with bunches of enormous 

 length. Valuable for its lateness. 



The Red Grape, Long-hunched Red Dutch, Magnum Bonum, and KnighCs Stocet 

 Red, are all fine red varieties, superior to the Red Dutch ; but none of them strikingly 

 distinct. 



The Silver-strij)ed Red is a variety of the Red Dutch, with variegated or blotched 

 foliage, like that of the Silver-edged Geranium. 



Black Currants, which are largely consumed by the English people for jams and 

 jellies, are not much cultivated in this country. The common Black English is well 

 known. The Black Naples is larger and finer, and is generally considered the best of 

 this class. We cultivate a curious copper-colored variety of the black Currant. The 

 Missouri Currants are sweet, and have something of the flavor of Whortleberries. 

 The Large-fruited has fruit nearly as large as Morrello Cherries, of a shining violet 

 color. The foliage is somewhat of the same character as the Yellow Flowering Cur- 

 rant. The Sweet-fruited has smaller, oval, shining fruit, of a violet color, and the 

 foliage resembles that of the black Currant more than the others. We have recently 

 received several new varieties from France, which we have not yet tested sufiiciently 

 to warrant an ojiinion of their merits. 



WEEPING, OR DROOPING TREES. 



There is something so attractive and so graceful in the character of droojjing trees, 

 that they arrest the attention of persons who would scarcely bestow a glance upon the 

 noblest and rarest trees of the ordinary upright habits of growth which prevail among 

 the mass of forest trees. We see this exemplified daily in our own grounds. A 

 Weeping Willow, common though it be, never fails to elicit admiration. In the hands 

 of a skillful, judicious planter, no other trees are more effective in giving variety, char- 

 acter, and expression, to a landscape ; but they must always be used sparingly, and 

 with the exercise of good taste and a great deal of foresight. We have known per- 

 sons so captivated with the elegance of the Weeping Willow, as to plant half a dozen 

 immediately around their dwellings, stamping them at once with the character of 

 mausoleums, more than that of the habitations of living beings. 



