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ferns and other shade-loving plants in one place, giving the flowers the 

 advantage of his rays in another, and protecting everything from the driving 

 winds. A flower garden can only be perfectly satisfactory when the flowers 

 are in comfortable places — that is, when they have sufficient sunlight, 

 shade, moisture, dryness, and protection from wind, and some of these 

 comforts the trees will help to give. 



II. Some Weeping Trees 



By W. C. Egan 



While weeping trees have their proper place in arboriculture, they never 

 possess the stateliness and grandeur of their upright progenitors. Being 

 abnormal forms, we do not look for such attributes, and are therefore 

 prepared for the weird and fantastic shapes that some assume, and for the 

 formalities of others. There are certain situations in which the weird forms 

 are appropriate, and the formal kinds are well suited to arbours. 



The common notion that weeping trees are produced by grafting ordinary 

 trees with buds inserted upside down is quite absurd. Weeping forms 

 have been originated by nature and are perpetuated by man. One seedling 

 out of many thousands, instead of producing a tree of normal upright growth, 



assumes the pendulous habit. 

 If this happens in an unexplored 

 region, it lives its allotted term 

 of life unobserved, and its pecu- 

 liarities pass away at its death, 

 as it seldom reproduces its char- 

 acteristics in its offspring. One 

 branch, or even a twig, of a tree 

 otherwise normal in its structure, 

 may assume a weeping tendency, 

 and it, too, dies with the parent 

 tree. This departure from a type 

 is found, not only in the form of 

 branch and twig, but also in a change in the colour or shape of the leaf, 

 as in the golden elder and cut -leaf maple. Some of these variations come 

 from seed; others are "sports." Man observes these idiosyncrasies, and 



Young's weeping bii 



