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weeping willow along with the Lombardy poplar, see Pépulus fastigiata in 
a future page. 
A large weeping willow, in a scene in which there are no other trees at all 
harmonising with it by their form, however beautiful it may be in itself, always 
more or less injures the landscape. In Gilpin’s Forest Scenery, he remarks 
that the “ weeping willow is a very picturesque tree, and a perfect contrast 
to the Lombardy poplar. The light airy spray of the poplar,” he adds, 
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“ rises perpendicularly : that of the weeping willow is pendent. The shape of 
its leaf is conformable to the pensile character of the tree; and its spray, 
which is lighter than that of the poplar, is more easily put in motion by a 
breath of air. The weeping willow, however, is not adapted to sublime 
subjects. We wish it not to screen the broken buttresses and Gothic windows 
of an abbey, or to overshadow the battlements of a ruined castle. These 
offices it resigns to the oak, whose dignity can support them. The weeping 
willow seeks an humbler scene; some romantic footpath bridge, which it 
half conceals, or some glassy pond, over which it hangs its streaming foliage,— 
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