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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 



CHAPTER VI. 



WEEPING EVERGREEN TREES. 



THE number of hardy evergreen trees that possess distinct 

 drooping habits to class them among weeding trees is very 

 limited. Unfortunately the funebral cypress, introduced some 

 twelve or fifteen years since, and from which so much was 



FIG. 41. WEEPING JUNIPER. 



hoped on account of coming from the north of China, has 

 proved tender in all exposed situations throughout the Northern 

 and Middle States. Of the few on which reliance can be placed, 

 the juniperuB oblonga pendula is of a small growth, making a 



