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The Dwarf Weeping Cherry. C. pumila pendula. — This is 
one of the most exquisite of little garden pets. Everything about 
it is in miniature. The leaves and blossoms, both of extreme deli- 
cacy, hang in matted masses differently from 
the spray of most weeping trees. Fig. i2 7'is a 
sketch of a young specimen in the grounds of 
Ellwanger & Barry at Rochester. It ought 
not to be called a tree ; for though it is grafted 
on a single stem of another sort, and there- 
fore maintains a tree form, its size is rather 
that of a green-house tub-plant. The growth 
is very slow, and it is said to be difficult .to 
propagate. It should not be grafted more than four or five feet 
high. Under favorable circumstances it may become a miniature 
tree six or eight feet in height, and equal diameter. 
The Laurel Cherry-trees, or Portugal Laurels, Cerasus 
liisitanica and C. laurocerasus^ are half-hardy evergreens, greatly 
esteemed in the south of Europe and the warmer parts of England. 
They have been found too tender to thrive in the N. Y. Central Park. 
The Carolina Bird Cherry-tree, C. carolinimia^ is another 
evergreen shrubby tree, indigenous in the Gulf States and in the 
West India islands, and one of the most superb ornamental shrubs 
of those regions, but too tender to thrive in the middle or northern 
States. 
THE GINKGO OR SALISBURIA TREE. Salisburia 
adiafitifolia. 
A native of Japan, remarkable for uniting in its leaves the pecu- 
liarities of the pine family with those of deciduous trees. Its 
leaves are like a tuft of the needle leaves of the pine, flattened out 
and united together in a fan-like form. They are small, peculiarly 
clean, sharp-cut, and of a light clear green color. The bark is 
whitish and fibry, like the surfaces of old pine shingles. The 
branches incline upward at an angle of 45° with the trunk, are 
