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feature, -where bold expression is desired, ttey are entirely 

 unfitted. Placed on the borders of groups, at sufficient distance 

 to enable them to exhibit their peculiar habits and develop freely 

 their forms, many of the drooping trees may be used effectively, 

 provided the group of which they form a part is composed with 

 similar pensile, although not so distinct in habits of foliage or 

 spray as exhibited in the American elm, black birch, or wild 

 cherry. For planting on the borders of ponds, or streams of 

 running water, or as symbols of sympathy between the living 

 and the dead in cemeteries, they are all valuable; and with 

 judicious knowledge of their expansion in growth to arrange 

 them on lots or in positions suitable to their future lives, they 

 cannot be too much used. 



VABIETIES. 



European Weeping Ash. — This is one of the oldest varieties of 

 weeping trees known. Originaliy it was more extensively 

 planted than any other variety, because of its rapid growth and 

 clear, glossy foliage. There are also of Weepers the gold barked 

 and the Lentiscus-leaved, both valuable, but in sections not 

 quite hardy. 



Weeping Beech. — This we consider the king of all the weeping 

 trees. It is perfectly hardy, grows freely and rapidly in almost 

 any soil, and forms one of the most graceful and picturesque, 

 yet unique trees. 



European Weeping Birch. — The cut-leaved Weeping Birch is 

 one of the best of this variety. Among the new varieties the 

 Megans pendula and Young's New Weeping are entirely distinct, 

 yet of the most delicate character. 



Weeping Cherry — Of this class we give preference to the 

 dwarf weeping (pumilaj and the ever flowering {semperflowrens). 

 Both require to be grafted from four to six feet high. 



Weeping Cypress — Gupressus Glyptostrohus pendula. — This is a 

 beautiful weeper, but we regard it as not hardy at the North. 



Weeping Elm. — Of the Weeping Elms we count the Camper- 

 down as the most persistent drooping drooping variety. The 



