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LAWN AND SHADE TEEES. 



The American, or Fountain Willow Salix Americana 

 pendula.K variety with very slender, graceful branches, which 

 droop perpendicular]}^, like so many cords, that, taken with its 

 light and comparatively sparse foliage, form for it one of the 

 most airy and pleasing weepers in the whole list. It is admir- 

 ably adapted for planting upon small lots in cemeteries. 



The Kilmarnock Willow Salix caprea pendula. We 

 know of no one weeping tree that in the same length of 



Fig. 26. Kilmarnock Willow. 



time has become so universally known and so extensively 

 planted. Its foliage, large, glossy, and abundant, its pendulous, 

 close, and regular habit, with its brown-colored branches, that 

 are almost hidden within its foliage, render it one of the most 

 distinctive as well as graceful trees that have been for many 

 years added to our collections. It is perfectly hardy, and 

 almost unlike anything else, seems to adapt itself to almost any 

 position, whether as a point tree to define a road, a specimen of 



