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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 



almost perpendicularly downward. For creating a distinct 

 strongly-marked, and attractive feature for universal admiration 

 on the skirts of a lawn, it has no superior. 



The European Weeping Birch Betula pendula.k tree of 

 rapid, upright, spreading growth, that while young exhibits 

 very little of a drooping habit, and even when old is not marked 



Fig. 20. Cut-Leaved Weeping Birch. 



as a weeper, like many others. Tt is, however, very graceful, 

 and as it increases in years presents more and more of the pensile 

 features that, combined with its delicate foliage, make it a 

 charming tree for grouping with others of a like slender sjjray 

 and airy foliage. 



The Cut-Leaved Weeping Btrch Betula lasciniata pendida. 

 An elegant, erect tree, similar to the preceding, but with 



