WEEPING DECIDUOUS TREES. 65 



beauty and attraction on a small lawn or garden plot, or as an 

 outline to some more- aspiring tree of a similar drooping caste. 



The Weeping Acacia — Mobinia tortuosa p&ndula. — This is a 

 variety of the locust, with long, drooping, irregular bran6hes, 

 too large in size to form with the light open leaf, which it has, 

 a tree of much beauty. It is singular, and in some rocky 

 positions is well suited; but it has not sufficient beauty for 

 planting, as we have often seen done, near where it has to be 

 passed in daily walking to and from the house. 



The Weeping Lakch — Larix pendula. — We have seen people 

 go into almost ecstasies over this peculiar weeper ; but to our 

 taste, its graceful drooping spray is destroyed by its grotesque 

 irregular habit, sometimes branching off at one point eight or 

 ten feet almost horizontally, destroying all symmetry, which is a 

 part of grace. For creating a picturesque effect upon a rocky 

 side-hill, or near a water-course or pond springing out from a 

 bold bank, its introduction would be desirable ; but for placing 

 upon a smooth, well-kept lawn where all is symmetrically beau- 

 tiful, its use creates a contrast too great for harmony. 



The Weeping Thobn. — There are several varieties of weeping 

 thorns — creetegus — all of them pretty, and well suited for plant- 

 ing on small lawns or in cemeteries. The pyraeantha folia 

 pendula and rosea pendula are, perhaps, two of the best. They 

 are improved by clipping, and when in flower are peculiarly 

 interesting and beautiful. Their stems should be carefully 

 watched, as, otherwise, an insect is liable to bore into and de- 

 stroy them. 



