466 LANDSCAPE GARDENING, 



Salix. WILLOW. 



There are three or four charming varieties to add to this 

 well known genus. Among them the newest, and perhaps the 

 most remarkable, is the Kilmarnock Weeping, quite distinctive, 

 with a very pendulous but close habit of growth, so much so, 

 that the branches, at least in young trees, are quite hid out by 

 the large glossy leaves, which, at a little distance, are not un- 

 like the apple leaf. It seems perfectly hardy, and, with the 

 cm; next mentioned, may be very appropriately planted in 

 pleasure grounds, where the other and larger willows would be 

 out of keeping. 



S. Americana pendula, an American dwarf variety, with 

 very slender and graceful branches, or rather shoots, which 

 when grafted six or seven feet high, hang down like whip- 

 cord ; this variety, we think, was first noticed by the late Mr. 

 Downing in Rivers' nursery, and very prettily described by 

 him as the Fountain willow, which is a much more expressive 

 and appropriate name than the one it now goes by in the nur- 

 series. It should always be grafted on what is called the Stock 

 willow ; if upon its own roots or worked even on itself, standard 

 high, it becomes nothing but an awkward distorted shrub. 



S. rosmarifolia (the Rosemary-leaved willow) Is another 

 exceedingly pretty little lawn tree, with delicate rosemary- 

 like leaves ; this should also be worked standard high. 



The Huntington willow, with large, beautiful, shining leaves, 

 and a variety we imported from France a year or so ago, 

 called S. pentandra, described there (though it has not yet 

 realized its reputation with us), as a beautiful tree, with leaves 

 like the laurel, are all the newer varieties proper for orna- 

 mental planting. 



Sophora. THE SOPHORA. 

 Lin. Syst. Decandria, Monogynia. 



This genus, the only hardy variety of which is deciduous, 

 is a native of Japan, and is highly ornamental. There is not, 

 to our knowledge, any large tree of it in this country, and from 

 this fact, perhaps, and from its great rarity, it was classed by 



