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AKUORETUM AND FRUTICETUM, 



PART 111 



greater breadth, like the leaves of a willow. This variety, which may 

 be designated as more curious than beautiful, is very apt to return to 

 the normal form. There were, in 1834, handsome small trees of 

 this variety in the Horticultural Society's Garden; and there are 

 plants at Messrs. Loddiges's, and in other London nurseries. In 

 Berkshire, at White Knights, this variety, 25 years planted, is 22 ft. 

 high ; in Durham, at Southend, it is between 40 ft. and 50 ft. high. 

 In the Perth Nursery, 20 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. At Oriel 

 Temple, in Ireland, 20 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. 

 F. s. 6 cristdta Lodd. Cat., ed. 183G ; F. s. crfspa Hort. ; Hetre Crete 

 de Coq, Fr. ; the crested, or curled-leaved, Beech ; our fig. 1877. ; 

 and the plate of this tree 

 in our last Volume. — This 

 variety is a monstrosity, 

 with the leaves small, and 

 almost sessile, and crowded 

 into small dense tufts, 

 which occur at intervals 

 along the branches. The 

 tree never attains a large 

 size, as may be expected 

 from its deficiency in foli- 

 age. The wood of this va- 

 riety, as shown in Sepps's 

 I tone* IAgnoruntf t. 3. f. 2., 

 U quite different from that 

 of the common beech; 

 b&ng dark, and curiously 



curled and veined. There 



is a specimen of this variety 

 in the (ilasnevin Botanic 

 Garden, 31 years planted, 

 v. hie li 1 1 20 It. high. 



1\ f. Ipendula Lodd. Cat.,ed. 

 1836; Hetre Parasol, Fr.» the weeping Beech. (See the plate of 

 this tree, which is a portrait, taken in 1835, from one still standing 

 in the Kensington Nursery, in our last Volume.) — When this 

 rarietf il grafted standard high, it forms a very singular and highly 

 beautiful object, well deserving a place in collections of weeping 



