462 LANDSCAPE GAEDENING. 



Fagus cristafa (Crested or Curled-leaved beech), is more 

 curious than interesting, and is what Mr. Loudon called a 

 ^' monstrosity," with leares small, almost sessile, and crowded 

 into small tufts which occur at intervals along the branches ; it 

 never becomes a large tree. 



Fagus foliis variegatis (Variegated-leaved beech). — There are 

 two varieties of this, the Golden and Silver ; the latter being the 

 most striking. 



There is also another most charming variety — F. Cunning- 

 hamia (the Evergreen beech), with leaves curiously small, but 

 which does not stand our climate in this vicinity, but, which in 

 the Southern States, we have little doubt, would be quite an ac- 

 quisition to the Evergreen trees. In connection with the beech 

 we would also mention three new varieties of Carpinus (Horn- 

 beam), 0. pendula, a pretty weeping tree, and the Golden and 

 Silver-leaved varieties, resembling very much, though inferior 

 to these same varieties in the beech. 



Fraxinus. Ash. 



There are five or sis varieties of this tree, not mentioned by 

 Mr. Downing, that are well deserving attention; the moststriking 

 and rarest, perhaps, is F. aucubafolia (the Aucuba-leaved ash). 

 The leaves blotched with yellow, like that well-known English 

 shrub, the AucuhaJaponiea, and to such an extent that at a little 

 distance, a tree of some age has the appearance of this plant of 

 extraordinary size ; on the edges of plantations it catches the 

 light so well that it works up to great advantage, and has so 

 strong a resemblance to a tree in flower that it is constantly 

 taken for one. The tree is yet very rare, a plant we obtained 

 a year or two since from Messrs. Ellwanger and Barry is the 

 only specimeti we have seen. 



F. aurea (Golden ash), and F. aurea pendula (Weeping 

 Golden ash), are both very desirable varieties ; the color of the 

 wood of a rich golden yellow, being very striking in winter 

 when contrasted with the snow, quite as marked as the Golden 

 willow ; on this account it would be well to plant it in sight 

 from the windows of the house. The latter tree is, with us, 



