PARK AND CEMETERY. 
over thirteen feet high, two others twelve feet and. 
two ten feet. The aggregate height was fifty-seven 
feet and one foot from the ground, the aggregate 
THE THTTRI.OW WEEPING WIEEOW. 
circumference of the whole was 24^ inches, mak- 
ing the most remarkable growth the writer ever saw 
in any tree. 
In the fall of 1893 the writer made a first visit 
to New England and on the grounds of Mr. T, C. 
Thurlow saw a most beautiful and graceful willow. 
The main stem was straight as an arrow and the 
slender branches were drooping. Some trees like 
Teas mulberry and Kilmarnock and the mountain 
ash weep like those without hope. Every branch 
turns earthward. But while this weeps there is 
something triumphant and victorious about it. It 
is all the while aspiring heavenward. Mr. Thur- 
low supposed it to be a Wisconsin weeper as he 
secured it with a lot of that variety. It is, how- 
ever, in no way related to them but different in 
every way. Being so much impressed with it, 
some cuttings were taken home to western Ne- 
braska where they were planted. They killed 
back the first winter but went through the second 
all right. A description was written of it for the 
Nebraska horticultural report, and the writer 
named it the Thurlow willow and it was accepted 
by that gentleman. In the meantime three years 
of drouth had killed the western planting, but 
others were set out at Weeping Water in the east- 
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ern part of the stale. Two excessively dry years 
were hard 0:1 them, but they passed through the 
terrific winter of ’98 all right. No willow succeeds 
on the dry plains of the west unless planted in wet 
ground or by some stream. But it is certain that 
this will do well where others will succeed, as far 
north as central Iowa, and as far west as Lincoln 
and Topeka, w'hile for the central states it must be 
a success. These trees are growing in Massa- 
chusetts, some of them with drooping thread-like 
branches 15 feet long. They were of extreme 
grace and beauty. For roadways where the 
ground is moist, the effect would be fine. In the 
west the limbs do not begin to droop as soon as in 
the east. The best way to propagate is by cut- 
ting. C. S. Harrison. 
DIERVILLA PRAECOX. 
Flower large in horizontal or slightly pendant 
trusses; tube rose carmine with a carmine base, 
the throat marked with a yellow band edged with 
carmine, the lobes rosy-mauve, half open; height 
4 to 5 feet. 
This beautiful species was introduced in 1894, 
its home being Japan. As its name indicates it is 
early flowering and by far the earliest of our Dier- 
villas. The photograph was taken May 20th, 1900, 
and shows a three-year-old plant. I imported the 
plant shown in the illustration from the well-known 
nurseryman, V. Lemoine in the fall of 1897. It 
was at that time only a spring cutting but has 
shown a surprisingly vigorous growth and went 
through the memorable winter of ’gS-'gg without 
the least injury, thus proving that it is perfectly 
DIERVIEIvA PR.ECOX. 
hardy in these parts. It is very floriferous and 
showy and its large, strong foliage makes it a de- 
sirable shrub even when not in flower. 
James Jensen. 
