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Weeping Mulberry {Moms alba, var. laciniata pen' 

 dula), Fig. io6. — One of the most graceful and beautiful 

 fountain-shaped trees. Its branches are slender and fall 

 away from the upright stock upon which it is grafted in a 

 very graceful fountain-like manner, and its deeply cut and 



Fig. 107. — Camperdown Elm {Ulmiis scabra, var. pendula). 



lobed bright -green leaves add much to its lightness and 

 beauty. It has thus far proved hardy and free from disease 

 or insect pest. 



Babylon Weeping Willow {Salix hahylonica). — The largest 

 and most rapidly growing of the very graceful weeping trees; 

 it is a very beautiful tree, but has some of the faults of other 



