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How to Make a Flower Garden 



Camperdown elm 



Next to it, perhaps, is the weeping beech, which in its youth is almost 

 painful to look upon, but when time has clothed its trunk with numerous 

 tortuous branches assumes a form that presents a tumbhng, waving mass 



of f oHage which in some specimens 

 is grand and imposing. No one 

 can form any idea of the ultimate 

 shape this tree will assume. It 

 seems to change its mind with each 

 season's growth, and may eventu- 

 ally form a specimen weirdly grand 

 or grotesquely absurd. 



These same remarks apply 

 with even more force to the weep- 

 ing Norway spruce. This, when 

 seen in the dim twilight, with its 

 dark evergreen foliage hanging in clotted masses, suggests the uncouth 

 denizens of the paleozoic forest. 



In Young's weeping birch is a fantastic form well adapted to small 

 grounds, but in this case, also, it is a question of time as to whether it 

 will develop into being a pleasing form or not. The weeping larch 

 is another tree of curious growth, 

 requiring age before it may be 

 admired in all its beauty. 



One of the best-known weep- 

 ing trees is the Camperdown elm, 

 a typical grafted variety whose 

 hardiness is unquestioned. While 

 of comparatively slow growth, 

 it forms in time, and in good 

 ground, a most suitable arbour. 

 A well-grown specimen will droop 

 to the ground and form an en- 

 closure twenty or more feet in 

 diameter, producing a dense, 



agreeable shade, handsome when in flower, and again when in leaf. 

 When planting this elm, it is well to remember that the doorway 

 to the natural arbour it will form will be between some two 



The Wisconsin weeping willow 



