168 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



dula). A most beautiful tree, producing its blossoms in 

 long pendant catkins before any other trees are in bloom, 

 and it makes a very beautiful object on the lawn. Its form 

 is good, foliage rich green, free from disease, and grafted 

 upon the Carolina poplar or cotton wood stock it bids fair 



FIG. 86. WEEPING BEECH (F. syl., pendula). 



to be a tree that will last longer than some of the upright 

 kinds. Its clean gray bark also makes it ornamental in the 

 winter.* 



WEEPING MULBERRY (Morus alba. var. laciniata pen- 

 dula), Fig. 87. 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 mariner, and its deeply cut and 



* Since the above was written specimens of this tree have been 

 seen badly injured by cold. 



