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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART II! 
1875 \ 1876 
greater breadth, like the leaves of awillow. This variety, which may 
be designated as more curious than beautiful, is very apt to return to 
the normal form. There were, in 1834, handsome small trees of 
this variety in the Horticultural Society’s Garden; and there are 
plants at Messrs. Loddiges’s, and in other London nurseries. In 
Berkshire, at White Knights, this variety, 25 years planted, is 22 ft. 
high; in Durham, at Southend, it is between 40 ft. and 50 ft. high. 
In the Perth Nursery, 20 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. At Oriel 
Temple, in Ireland, 20 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. 
¥ FE, s. 6 cristata Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; F. s. crispa Hort. ; Hétre Créte 
de Coq, Fr.; the crested, or curled-leaved, Beech; our jig. . 
and the plate of ,this tree : Ci nbe e 
in our last Volume.— This 
variety is a monstrosity, 
with the leaves small, and 
almost sessile, and crowded ‘ 
into small dense tufts, 
which occur at intervals 
along the branches. The 
tree never attains a large 
size, as may be expected 
from its deficiency in foli- 
age. The wood of this va- 
riety, as shown in Sepps’s 
Icones Lignorum, t. 3. f. 2-5 
is quite different from that 
of the common_ beech; 
being dark, and curiously 
curled and veined. There 
is a specimen of this variety 
in the Glasnevin Botanic 
Garden, 31 years planted, 
which is 20 ft. high. 
* F. s.'7 péndula Lodd. Cat., ed. 
1836; Hétre Parasol, Fr.; the weeping Beech. (See the plate of 
this tree, which is a portrait, taken in 1835, from one still standing 
in the Kensington Nursery, in our last Volume.)— When this 
variety is grafted standard high, it forms a very singular and highly 
beautiful object, well deserving a place in collections of weeping 
