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Tho cut-leaved family is also very curious. The prettiest of these are the cut-leaf 

 Beech, the cut-leaf Uorse-Chestnut, and the cut-leaf Ash. Though the cut-leaf Lin- 

 den, and cut-leaf l^irch, are desirable in a collection. [The cut-leaved J'>ircli is, to our 

 tasto, one of the most elegant trees recently introduced. — Ed.] 



The purple trees and shrubs are the copper and pur|)le Ik'ech, the purple Filbert, 

 and the purple lierberry. A few of these intermingling with the fanciful, gay foliage 

 of the variegated Sycamore, Syringa, Thorn, <tc., have the prettiest ellect, if not over- 

 done, or too much, or too glaringly exposed. 



The weeping trees are nov?, generally, so well known, as hardly to require mention. 

 The old and new Weeping Birch ; tho lanceolate-leaved Weeping liirch ; the green 

 and purple Weeping Beech ; the old green, the yellow, and the lanceolated Weeping 

 Ash ; the Weeping Sophora; the Weeping Horse-Chestnut, Oak, Elm, Poplar, Thorn, 

 Laburnum, Cotoneaster, Peach, Cherry (three varieties), Euonymus; besides half a 

 dozen more of the smaller shrubs, grafted standard high, and allowed to weep down, 

 such as the Caragana arenaria, Euonymus linifolia, Carar/ana frutescens, Cytisus 

 lessifolia, &c. 



One of the most desirable and beautiful trees, at this season, is the Virr/ilia lutea — 

 beautiful in its habit and foliage, and exquisite in its bloom. 



The purple and oak-loaf Laburnum are worth a place in any shrubbery. The oak- 

 leaf Hydrangea is quite hardy and desirable. 



For hedging, the most beautiful are the Hemlock, the English Yew, and the Beech ; 

 the most serviceable, the Buckthorn, AVashington Thorn, and Osage Orange. 



Among the Elms, the Ulmus glabra pendula, the Scampston Weeping, and the 

 Camperdown Weeping, are very remarkable. 



There are a good many fine foreign Elms, not pendulous in their character, yet well 

 worth planting. Such as the Chichester, the Cornish, the Exmouth, the Uuntington, 

 the English Cork, the Dutch Cork, the Scotch and the English Upright — a most val- 

 uable tree, from its property of retaining its foliage, green, long after the surrounding 

 trees are stripped. 



Among the rarer Maples, are tbe silver striped leaf; the Norway, (the finest, I 

 think, of all Maples;) th'e Acer Tataricum ; the English, with a very dense, round, 

 habit of growth ; and the purple Maple, with leaves of a rich dark green externally, 

 and of a chocolate brown underneath. 



Besides the Ashes above enumerated, are the Willow-leaved ; the Aucuba-leaved, 

 blotched with yellow, like the Aucuha Japonica ; the Myrtle-leaved ; and a new and 

 pretty variety, originated, I believe, with Messrs. Ellwanger and Barry. 



The Turkey, the Overcup Oak, and the English Royal, Lucomb, and Fulham, and 

 our diiferent American varieties, are, of course, all desirable, where the size of the place 

 will admit. 



I shall end this chapter with one more tree, which to my taste is, among deciduous 

 trees, one of the most graceful and fairy-like of all of the large collection I have 

 and that is the new Weeping Larch, grafted twelve feet from the ground, and certainly 



