190 Landscape Gardening 



LIST OF WEEPING TREES 



Maple, Cut-leaved Weeping. Mulberry, Weeping. 



Birch, Cut-leaved Weeping. Willow, Babylon Weeping. 



Cherry, Weeping Japanese. Willow, Kilmarnock Weeping. 



Dogwood, Weeping. Willow, Thurlow's Weeping. 



Beech, Weeping. Willow, Purple or Am. Weeping. 



Ash, Weeping. Elm, Camperdown. 

 Poplar, Weeping. 



Cut-leaved Weeping Maple (Acer saccharinum, var. 

 Wieri), Fig. 103. A very graceful weeping tree with deeply 

 cut leaves, dark green above and silvery white beneath. 

 When allowed to grow without care, it often forms forked 

 branches that are liable to split down with heavy weight of 

 snow and ice. To avoid this, only one leader or main 

 branch should be allowed to grow at first, and all laterals 

 tending to outgrow the leader should be headed in to keep 

 a good balance of the tree. Some very fine trees are grown 

 from seed of the cut-leaved varieties, but the best forms must 

 be obtained.by grafting upon the common silver maple stock. 



Cut-leaved European Weeping Birch (Betula pendula 

 var. dalecarlica) , Fig. 104. On account of its rapid growth, 

 the ease with which it is transplanted, and its great beauty, 

 both in winter and summer, this is one of the most satis- 

 factory of the weeping trees while young. It is especially 

 effective with a background of evergreens or in winter in 

 contrast with red- or yellow-twigged willows. It grows well 

 in poor soil and is easily transplanted while young, but not 

 so readily when it reaches two or three inches in diameter. 

 This variety is commonly grafted or budded on the ccmmon 

 form of B. alba. It has not proved a long-lived tree, being 

 often attacked by a disease when 20 to 30 years old that 

 frequently kills the whole tree in one or two seasons. 



Young's Weeping Birch (B. p., var. Youngii). A form of 

 the common gray birch. Smaller and less upright than the 



