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spring-fiowering trees are more beautiful than this Cherry. The form 
(var. rejlexa) of the European Prunus fruticosa or P. Chamaecerosus, 
as it was formerly called, with drooping branches is a handsome and 
hardy little Cherry worth a place in small gardens. Few North Amer- 
ican trees have produced forms with pendulous branches. An excep- 
tion is Prunus serotina, of which there is a w'eeping form (var. pen- 
dula) which is occasionally cultivated. There are varieties of the 
Apricot and of the Peach with pendulous branches of no particular 
beauty or interest. 
Cornus fiorida. This is another North American tree which has pro- 
duced a form with wide-spreading and partly pendulous branches (var. 
pendula). As an ornamental plant this tree is not particularly valuable. 
Morus alba. A seedling of a Russian variety of this tree (var. ta- 
tarica), known as Teas’ Weeping Mulberry, appeared several years ago 
in the nursery of John C. Teas at Carthage, Missouri, and it is now 
one of the most generally planted weeping trees in the United States. 
When the branches are grafted on a tall stem of the common Mul- 
berry they form a narrow, round-topped plant with branches sweeping 
the ground. 
Malus. A form of the common Apple-tree (var. pendula), popularly 
knov/n as “Elisa Rathke,’’ with stout, very pendulous branches, is 
sometimes found in collections grown as a tali standard. As it appears 
in the Arboretum this tree is more curious than beautiful. 
Sophora japonica. The form (var. pendula) of this Chinese tree with 
stout drooping branches is one of the best known “weeping” trees 
and w'hen grafted on a tall stem of the ordinary form the branches 
make a broad round-topped tree which can be used as an arbor. The 
weeping form flow’ers very rarely or not at all. 
Crataegus monogyna. This is the common European Hawthorn or 
May, and the form with pendulous branches (var. pendula) is a tree 
of graceful habit and well worth a place in a collection of these plants. 
There is a variety of this weeping tree with leaves blotched with 
W'hite (var. pendula variegata). 
Ilex. There are handsome forms of the European Holly (/. Aquifo- 
lium) wdth pendulous branches. Unfortunately this tree, which is one 
of the handsomest of broad-leaved evergreens, is not hardy in New 
England, although it flourishes in several of the middle and southern 
states. The most distinct of the weeping forms are var. pendula with 
rather rigid, arching and pendulous branches w^hich form a round-topped 
head, and the variety argentea marginata pendula, knowm in England 
as Perry’s Weeping Holly. 
Carpinus. The European Hornbeam. Carpinus Betulus, has pro- 
duced forms with more or less pendulous branches of which the best 
known (var. pendula) has a rather broad head. As it grows in the 
Arboretum the branches are not particularly drooping. A handsomer 
plant is the variety pendula Dervaesii which is not in the collection. 
Want of space makes it necessary to defer until another occasion an 
account of the weeping forms of a number of coniferous trees. 
