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LAWN AND SHADS TREES. 
almost perpendicularly downward. For creating a distinct, 
strongly-marked, and attractive feature for universal admiration 
on the skirts of a lawn, it has no superior. 
The European Weeping Birch— Betula pendula.—A tree of 
rapid, upright, spreading growth, that while young exhibits 
very little of a drooping habit, and even when old is not marked 
Fig. 20.— Cut-Leaved Weeping Birch. 
as a weeper, like many others. It is, however, very graceful, 
and as it increases in years presents more and more of the pensile 
features that, combined with its delicate foliage, make it a 
charming tree for grouping with others of a like slender spray 
and airy foliage. 
The Cut-Leaved Weeping Btrch — Betula lasciniata pendula. 
— An elegant, erect tree, similar to the preceding, but with 
