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The favourite place, where it is most true to nature and 
itself, is near water, where 
“ it dips 
Its pendant boughs, stooping as if to drink.” 
Cowper. 
There, when properly introduced, not in too great abun- 
dance, hanging over some rustic bridge, or cool jutting 
spring, and supported, and brought into harmony with 
surrounding vegetation by such other graceful and light- 
sprayed trees, as the Birch and Weeping elm, its effect is 
often surpassingly beautiful and appropriate. There it is 
one of the first in the vernal season to burst its buds, and 
mirror its soft green foliage in the flood beneath, and one of 
the last in autumn to yield its leafy vesture to the chilling 
frosts, or fitful gusts of approaching winter. 
We consider the Weeping willow ill calculated for a place 
near a mansion, which has any claims to size, magnificence, 
or architectural beauty ; as it does not in any way contribute 
by its form or outline to add to, or strengthen such charac- 
teristics in a building. The only place where it can be 
happily situated in this way, is in the case of very humble 
or inconspicuous cottages, which we have seen much orna- 
mented by being completely hidden, as it were, beneath 
the soft veil of its streaming foliage. 
There is a very singular variety of the Weeping willow 
cultivated in our gardens, under* the name of the Ringlet 
willow ; which is so remarkable in the form of its foliage, 
and so different from all other trees, that it is well worth a 
place as a curiosity. Each leaf is curled round like a ring 
or hoop, and the appearance of a branch in full foliage is 
not unlike a thinly curled ringlet ; whence its common 
name. It forms a neat, middle-sized tree, with drooping 
