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ety. The foliage is very thick, deep green, and rich, and 

 the branches, which assume a variety of forms, are frequently 

 as pendulous as the ash. In general, they grow mostly upon 

 one side, in a kind of fan-shape, but frequently forming a 

 regular drooping head. The heavy mass of dark foliage 

 which it always presents to the eye, gives it a very attractive 

 and beautiful appearance. It is a rapid and vigorous growing 

 tree, attaining the height of twenty-five feet in eight or ten 

 years. 



5. The New Weeping English Elm. (U. camcpsti'is, var. 

 pmdula.) A new and fine variety, introduced to notice, we 

 believe, by Mr. Rivers, nurseryman, of Sawbridgeworth, Eng- 

 land, It has a fine pendulous habit, with small foliage, like 

 the common English elm, and branches much more slender 

 than the Scotch. 



6. The Scampston Weeping Elm. (U. glabra, var. phi- 

 dula.) Another drooping variety of the elm, which is very 

 ornamental, with slender branches, and a deep green foliage. 

 With the two last, it makes a fine variety, where the space 

 will allow the introduction of several kinds. 



7. The Weeping Beech. [Yagus sylvatica, var. pendu- 

 la.) This forms one of the most picturesque and ornamental 

 of all the weeping trees. The branches naturally incline to 

 one side, and descend almost perpendicularly downward. To 

 show its real character, it should be grafted quite high ; it 

 then has an opportunity to make a fine head. Perfectly 

 hardy. 



8. The Weeping English Oak. [Q^uercus pedunculata, 

 var. pendula.) Mr. Loudon, in the Arboretum Britannicum., 

 speaks of a large specimen of this tree, in Hertfordshire, Eng- 

 land, as " perhaps, one of the most extraordinary trees of the 

 oak kind in existence." Its height was seventy-eight feet, 

 in 1835, and the head covered a space of one hundred feet 

 in diameter. Many of the branches were thirty feet long, 

 and no thicker, in any part of that length, than a common 

 wagon rope. The foliage is similar to the parent, and holds 

 its verdure late in the fall. It is a rapid and vigorous grow- 

 er, and our largest specimen, five years planted, and fifteen 

 feet high, begins to assume its fine drooping habit. 



