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WEEPING TREES. 



Weeping trees add considerably to the embellishment 

 a garden , but many of the most picturesque of them i 

 insufficiently known. The following list, which appeared 

 the Bulletin horticole, a new organ of the eight Ilortic 

 tural Societies of the East of Belgium, may be of servi 

 to planters and designers of gardens, who have not the 

 names of all these ornamental trees iniheir heads. 



White Weeping Birch, obtained by Mr. Bonamy, of Tou- 

 louse; exceedingly elegant. 



Youngs Weeping Birch, very light and graceful; first 

 observed in Hampshire. 



Scarlet Weeping Oak, foliage scarlet in Autumn, a na- 

 tive of Massachusetts (United States). 



English Weeping Oak, a variety of the common Oak, 

 obtained at Orleans by Mr. Dauvesse. 



Weeping Ash, a well known variety detected on the estate 

 of Count de Merode, at Westerloo, Antwerp. 



Weeping gold-harked Ash, bark golden yellow. 



Weeping variegated Ash, leaves variegated with green 



yJ>, a magnificent tree having : 

 branches. 



Waterloo. 



beautiful of 



vigorous elegant variety, 



, japonica pendula. 



of pendulo 



Weeping Walnut, found i 



Weeping Willow, the 

 all weeping trees. 



Salomon's Weeping Willou 

 obtained by Mr. Villevieille. 



Kilmarnock Weeping Willo 



Weeping Sophora, Sophore 



Weeping Silver Lime. 



B » » with variegated leaves. 



Common Weeping Elm, with large leaves. 



This list has its interest, doubtless, but there is a large I forty-six 

 number of species and varieties with pendulous branches I not exha 

 that are not included in it. Though perhaps not able to sources : 

 complete it, we ma) be permitted to add our contribution greater p 

 of the names of those which occur to us at the moment, and The art 

 which deserve a place in the garden and park on account entirely i 

 ol their graceful or picturcsipie habit. I mountain 



Willow-leaved Pear, Pirns sedici folia, foliage silvery, | upon 1 





W,e, 



ing Hornbeam , i 



Betulus 



BOTANICAL CONGRESS AT FLORENCE. 



At the first meeting of the International Botanical Congress 

 Presided over by D l Hooker, Mr. Planchon discoursed on 

 Phylloxera voMatrix , Professor A. Targioni Tozetti follow- 

 ing him on the same subject. 



Mr. I amintzin then made a communication on the spores 

 °f Ceratium and Lycogala. 



Prof. Orphanides, of Athens, read a memoir on the diffe- 

 rent species of Colchicum peculiar to Greece. 



Mr. Schimper gave an account of an Annularia (Sphoeno- j 

 Phyllum) found in the gneiss of Monte-Bianco, to which | 



Mr. DeCando 



jug the IJainb 



