Account of a new Weeping Larch. 



547 



138 



just give, as an instance, another young thorn, the head of 

 which, like many other heads you and I have known, had 

 been turned, and, in fact, was becoming quite deformed by the 

 action of the wind, as in Jig. 137. 



Now, only see what may be done by the Gulliver principle. 

 Here is the same tree brought by merely a few short stakes 

 and cords (as near as I could manage them, of equal tension) 

 to a perpendicular direction, and nobody can deny the superior 

 form of the head. I do not know a more perfect practical 

 application of the motto, " Union is strength." 



Whittington, Stoke Ferry, No? folk, March 4. 1839. 



Art. V. An Account of a new Weeping Larch. By W. Godsall. 



I beg to say I have raised a larch which, I conceive, is a 

 novelty, and will form a new and picturesque feature in arbore- 

 tums and other plantations. 



I discovered it, some years ago, in a seed bed, trailing along 

 the ground, when I transplanted it to a situation affording more 

 scope for its progress. Since first observed, and for a period 

 of eight years, it has uniformly retained its prostrate habit, 

 and, with its progeny, it has been seen by many amateurs, 

 nurserymen, and gardeners, all of whom consider it a valuable 



