Art Out-of-Doors 



Some pendulous trees do form accents, 

 but they are of sturdier habit than the 

 weeping willow. There is a garden variety 

 of beech, for instance, which we call the 

 weeping beech ; but it does not lament in 

 as weak and watery a way as the willow. 

 It would look very much out of place in a 

 landscape-picture of an extremely natural- 

 istic type ; but where the desired effect is 

 what old English gardeners used to call 



polished" — where it is a distinctly gar- 

 denesque effect — then a weeping beech may 

 look well; and best of all where it stands 

 in a palpably artificial scene yet is sup- 

 ported by great neighboring masses of rock. 

 I should be sorry to see the fine weeping 

 beeches removed from the West Drive in 

 Central Park, but I should be still more 

 sorry to see them turned into weeping 

 willows. 



In a rural spot, a cottage with a weeping 

 willow beside it looks better than a naked 

 cottage ; but another tree would still more 

 clearly express, by its greater sturdiness, the 

 idea of comfortable protection. But the 

 very worst place of all for a weeping willow, 

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