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The Dwarf Weeping Cherry. C. ptimila fejidula. — This is 

 one of the most exquisite of little garden pets. Everything about 

 it is in miniature. The leaves and blossoms, both of extreme deli- 

 cacy, hang in matted masses differently from 

 't' \~'^' the spray of most weeping trees. Fig. 127 is a 



,(5«s7:; ,^''' sketch of a young specimen in the grounds of 



vifl" ■■ EUwanger & Barry at Rochester. It ought 



■' not to be called a tree ; for though it is grafted 

 ,, on a single stem of another sort, and there- 

 of; fore maintains a tree form, its size is rather 

 \fe-"^; -^jja? that of a green-house tub-plant. The growth 

 is very slow, and it is said to be difficult to 

 propagate. It should not be grafted more than four or five feet 

 high. Under favorable circumstances it may become a miniature 

 tree six or eight feet in height, and equal diameter. 



The Laurel Cherry-trees, or Portugal Laurels, Cerasus 

 lusitayiica and C. laurocerastts, are half-hardy evergreens, greatly 

 esteemed in the south of Europe and the warmer parts of England. 

 They have been found too tender to thrive in the N. Y. Central Park. 



The Carolina Bird Cherry-tree, C. caroliniana, is another 

 evergreen shrubby tree, indigenous in the Gulf States and in the 

 West India islands, and one of the most superb ornamental shrubs 

 of those regions, but too tender to thrive in the middle or northern 

 States. 



THE GINKGO OR SALISBURIA TREE. Salisburia 

 adiantifolia. 



A native of Japan, remarkable for uniting in its leaves the pecu- 

 liarities of the pme family with those of deciduous trees. Its 

 leaves are like a tuft of the needle leaves of the pine, flattened out 

 and united together in a fan-like form. They are small, peculiarly 

 clean, sharp-cut, and of a light clear green color. The bark is 

 whitish and fibry, like the surfaces of old pine shingles. The 

 branches incline upward at an angle of 45° with the trunk, are 



