THE ROMANCE OF OUR TREES 



{U. nitens var. Wheatleyi) which appears in some 

 nurserymen's catalogues under the name of Ulmns 

 campestris monumentalis. 



Fairly well known is Quercus pedunculata var. fas- 

 tigiata, the Cypress Oak, a variety of the English 

 Oak, and very variable in foliage. In western Eu- 

 rope it grows to a large tree but in this country, though 

 it is quite hardy, it is short-lived. It grows rapidly 

 here but rarely lives more than thirty or forty years. 

 The same is true of the fastigiate Birch (Betula pen- 

 dula var. fastigiata), which has a narrow crown of 

 erect branches. It is strange that among such a 

 large tribe as the Birches the common White Birch 

 of Europe alone has sported distinct forms. 



Among that summer-flowering group of trees, the 

 Lindens, there is but one with upright branches. 

 This is Tilia platyphyllos var. pyramidalis, a Euro- 

 pean tree whose branches taper from a broad base 

 to a pointed apex, and is pyramidal rather than erect 

 in habit. The European Hornbeam (Carpinus Betu- 

 lus) has given rise to two forms of upright habit. 

 One (var. globosa), in spite of its name, is a dwarf, 

 very compact, fastigiate plant, the other (var. pyra- 

 midalis) is well described by its varietal name. 



One of the most interesting of all fastigiate trees 

 is the Dawyck Beech (Fagus sylvatica var. dawyckii). 

 This remarkable form of the European Beech origi- 

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