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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM, 



PART III 



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greater breadth, like the leaves of a willow. 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. 

 hi"h; 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, 

 i F. *. 6 cristdta Lodd. Cat., ed. 18.3G; F. s. crlspa Hort. ; Hetre Crete 

 i\eCoq,Fr.; the crested, or curled-leaved. Beech; our fg. 1877.; 

 and the plate of .this tree 

 in our tast 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 Lignonivi, t. 3. f. 2., 



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. 

 t V. s.lpeiidiila Lodd. Cat., ed. 



1836; Hetre Parasol, Fr.-, the jvecpivg Beech. (Seethe plate ot 



this tree, which is a portrait, taken in 1835, from one still stantlmg 

 in the Kensinston Nurserv, 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 



