DECIDUOUS TREES 
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Fig, 122. 
A WEEPING WILLOW ON STEATFOBD AVENUE, EAST BEIDGICPORT, CONN. 
The Weeping Willow, Saiix babylonica, is by far the most 
beautiful of this great family, and its wonderful combination of 
charms are too common to be fully appreciated. It strikes root 
from cuttings as readily as a currant twig, and then grows with 
great rapidity, becoming a tree of irregularly-rounded masses fifty 
to sixty feet high and broad within twelve or fifteen years after 
planting. 
The weeping willow is the type of pensile trees. In their first 
growth the branches aim bravely upward, but the slender subsi- 
diary branches soon give up all struggle with the laws of gravity, 
