WEEPING- DECIDUOUS TREES. 
49 
more slender drooping brandies, and with delicately cut leaves, 
that attract and please every observer. 
The Ever-Flowering Weeping Cherry — Cerasus semper 
florens . — This is of comparatively recent introduction, and forms 
a charming tree of a decided drooping habit, and producing a 
succession of flowers and fruit all the season. 
The Dwarf Weeping Cherry — Cerasus pumila . — For small 
grounds, points on the outskirts of a group, or other positions 
where a limited space only can be allowed, this is one of the 
prettiest of weepers. Its branches are slender and decidedly 
Fig. 21.— Dwarf Weeping Cherry. 
drooping, growing freely, and forming a charmingly graceful' 
little round head. ' 
The Scotch Weeping Elm— JJlmus montana pendula . — The 
habit of this variety of weeping elm is very irregular, sometimes 
spreading its branches fan-like, at others drooping them almost 
perpendicularly downward. It is a tree of rapid growth, with 
an abundance of coarse, heavy, dark foliage, that is suitable for 
positions where it can have abundance of room, and where it 
will be viewed at some little distance. This is the variety 
generally found in the nurseries ; but there are two varieties of 
more recent introduction, which we consider superior in growth, 
as they certainly are in symmetry of form. 
3 
