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Salix. Willow. 
There are three or four charming varieties to add to this 
well known genus. Among them the newest, and perhaps the 
most remarkable, is the Kilmarnock Weeping, quite distinctive, 
with a very pendulous but close habit of growth, so much so, 
that the branches, at least in young trees, are quite hid out by 
the large glossy leaves, which, at a little distance, are not un- 
like the apple leaf. It seems perfectly hardy, and, with the 
one next mentioned, may be very appropriately planted in 
pleasure grounds, where the other and larger willows would be 
out of keeping. 
S. Americana pendula , an American dwarf variety, with 
very slender and graceful branches, or rather shoots, which 
when grafted six or seven feet high, hang down like whip- 
cord ; this variety, we think, was first noticed by the late Mr. 
Downing in Rivers’ nursery, and very prettily described by 
him as the Fountain willow, which is a much more expressive 
and appropriate name than the one it now goes by in the nur- 
series. It should always be grafted on what is called the Stock 
willow ; if upon its own roots or worked even on itself, standard 
high, it becomes nothing but an awkward distorted shrub. 
S. rosmarifolia (the Rosemary -leaved willow) — Is another 
exceedingly pretty little lawn tree, with delicate rosemary- 
like leaves ; this should also be worked standard high. 
The Huntington willow, with large, beautiful, shining leaves, 
and a variety we imported from France a year or so ago, 
called S. pentandra, described there (though it has not yet 
realized its reputation with us), as a beautiful tree, with leaves 
like the laurel, are all the newer varieties proper for orna- 
mental planting. 
Sophora . The Sophora. 
Lin. Syst. Decandria, Monogynia. 
This genus, the only hardy variety of which is deciduous, 
is a native of Japan, and is highly ornamental. There is not, 
to our knowledge, any large tree of it in this country, and from 
this fact, perhaps, and from its great rarity, it was classed by 
