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Scotch "Weeping has drooping branches but not pendulous. The 

 cork barked is distinct, so also Hertfordshire and rough leaved. 

 The small leaved is only of value for the reserve garden as a 

 study. 



Weeping Euonymous. — This is a variety of a shrub called the 

 Strawberry tree or Burning Bush. It is a novelty of value. 



Weeping Honey Locust. — Hardy and with fine foliage, but we 

 should award it a place only in the reserve grounds. 



Weeping Larch. — If a tree is wanted for a rocky bank, or as a 

 grotesque feature at some conspicuous point nothing can equal 

 the Weeping Larch, but for a symmetrical lawn it is not suited. 



Weeping Linden. — The tree that goes under the name of 

 Weeping Linden is not strictly a weeper. Its foliage is whitish 

 underneath and with age it has a half drooping habit. 



Weeping Mountain Ash. — This is one of the most beautiful of 

 weeping trees, but the Saperda, a borer, often destroys it by 

 girdling it. It is generally worked upon the common Mountain 

 ash at six to eight feet high, and in four years its branches reach 

 the ground, loaded with white blooms in spring and red berries 

 in winter. 



Weeping Poplar. — The variety of this weeper (grandidenta 

 pendula) is well adapted to the back-ground of a group of 

 weepers, but it is too strong and bold, except upon a large lawn 

 or back from a pond or running stream. 



Weeping Sophora. — The Sophora Japonica Pendula is one of the 

 most beautiful of weepers. The foliage is smooth, dark green, 

 with very pendulous branches and pinnate leaves. Occasionally 

 trees of it stand hardy in our Northern latitude, but above 

 •i2° we should never advise its planting. 



Weeping Willows. — The Salix Babylonica is our old well-known 

 weeping willow. From long usage this willow has come to be 

 associated with either water or the sadness of life — in the one 

 case, indicative of a marshy region or stream of water ; in the 

 other, of the last resting place of friends once on earth. 

 Beautiful as it is in itself, these very associations preclude its 

 introduction into almost any suburban or even extended place. 



