5 4 : 
LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
The American, or Fountain Willow — Sctlix Americana 
pendula . — A variety with very slender, graceful branches, which 
droop perpendicularly, like so many cords, that, taken with its 
light and comparatively sparse foliage, form for it one of the 
most airy and pleasing weepers in the whole list. It is admir- 
ably adapted for planting upon small lots in cemeteries. 
The Kilmarnock Willow — Salix ca'prea pendula. — We 
know of no one weeping tree that in the same length of 
Fig. 26.-— Kilmarnock Willow. 
time has become so universally known and so extensively 
planted. Its foliage, large, glossy, and abundant, its pendulous, 
close, and regular habit, with its brown-colored branches, that 
are almost hidden within its foliage, render it one of the most 
distinctive as well as graceful trees that have been for many 
years added to our collections. It is perfectly hardy, and 
almost unlike anything else, seems to adapt itself to almost any 
position, whether as a point tree to define a road, a specimen of 
