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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Fagus cristala. (Crested or Curled-leaved beech), is more 
curious than interesting, and is what Mr. Loudon called a 
“monstrosity,” with leaves small, almost sessile, and crowded 
into small tufts which occur at intervals along the branches ; it 
never becomes a large tree. 
Fagus folih variegatis (Variegated-leaved beech). — There are 
two varieties of this, the Golden and Silver ; the latter being the 
most striking. 
There is also another most charming variety — F. Cunning- 
hamia (the Evergreen beech), with leaves curiously small, but 
which does not stand our climate in this vicinity, but, which in 
the Southern States, we have little doubt, would be quite an ac- 
quisition to the Evergreen trees. In connection with the beech 
we would also mention three new varieties of Carpinus (Horn- 
beam), C. pendula , a pretty weeping tree, and the Golden and 
Silver-leaved varieties, resembling very much, though inferior 
to these same varieties in the beech. 
Fraxinus. Ash. 
There are five or six varieties of this tree, not mentioned by 
Mr. Downing, that are well deserving attention; the most striking 
and rarest, perhaps, is F. aucubafolia (the Aucuba-leaved ash). 
The leaves blotched with yellow, like that well-known English 
shrub, the Aucuba Japonica, and to such an extent that at a little 
distance, a tree of some age has the appearance of this plant of 
extraordinary size ; on the edges of plantations it catches the 
light so well that it works up to great advantage, and has so 
strong a resemblance to a tree in flower that it is constantly 
taken for one. The tree is yet very rare, a plant we obtained 
a year or two since from Messrs. Ellwanger and Barry is the 
only specimen we have seen. 
F. aurea (Golden ash), and F. aurea pendula (Weeping 
Golden ash), are both very desirable varieties ; the color of the 
wood of a rich golden yellow, being very striking in winter 
when contrasted with the snow, quite as marked as the Golden 
willow ; on this account it would be well to plant it in sight 
from the windows of the house. The latter tree is, with us, 
