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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
habits of foliage or spray, as exhibited in the American elm, 
black birch, or wild cherry. 
For planting on the borders of ponds, or streams of running 
water, or as symbols of .sympathy between the living and the 
dead in cemeteries, they are all valuable ; and with judicious 
knowledge of their expansion in growth, to arrange them on 
lots or in positions suitable to their future lives, they can not be 
too much used. 
Fig. 18 .— European Weeping Ash. 
The European Weeping Ash — Fraxinus excelsior pendula — 
This is one of the oldest varieties of weeping trees known, and 
more extensively planted than any. It was discovered about 
the middle of the last century, growing in a field in England. 
The branches are stiff, and can not be called graceful in their 
downward curves; but its clean, glossy foliage and its very 
rapid growth render it one of the most valuable, especially for 
forming arbors. 
