arbor vitae, or other shrubs of upright and pointed habits, showing out of the 

 midst of an occasional group of rhododendrons, would be in good taste ; but 

 place these near to, or on one side of the group, and the group would (so to 

 speak) be unbalanced, and thereby lose both interest and beauty ; and so with 

 other kinds. (See Plate of Groups, shewing the difference.) 



Weeping Trees. — Of weeping trees there are several kinds — the weeping 

 ash, elm, lirne, new weeping beech, larch, laburnum, poplar, willow, and 

 especially the new American weeping willow, which is the most elegant of 

 weeping trees : the common weeping holly, too, is a very singular and pleasing 

 plant, and Fraxinus lentiscifolia pendula is an elegant drooping tree, very 

 superior to the common weeping ash. These are not distinct species, but 

 varieties only of their respective families. Their singularly drooping habit, 

 and the canopy they afford over seats, have seldom failed to create interest, 

 excepting when viewed with a painter's eye, which scarcely can be reconciled 

 to them; but, perhaps, with judicious management, their formality and 

 roundness may be made to appear not quite so objectionable. They should 

 be placed singly upon the lawn, near to, and fronting a mass or group of 

 trees, or of such low-growing trees as will appear higher than the weeper. 

 In this way its formality will be a good deal broken by its associates rising 

 higher than itself, and seeming to form a lead, or centre to it ; and, at any 

 rate, its stiff formal appearance will not strike so forcibly upon the eye as 

 to become offensive. 



