80 
LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
CHAPTER VX. 
WEEPING EVERGREEN TREES. 
The number of barely evergreen trees tbat possess distinct 
drooping habits to class them among weeping trees is very 
limited. Unfortunately the funebral cypress, introduced some 
twelve or fifteen years since, and from which so much was 
Fig. 41.— Weeping Juniper. 
hoped on account of coming from the north of China, has 
proved tender in all exposed situations throughout the Northern 
and Middle States. Of the few on which reliance can be placed, 
the juniper us oblong a pendula is of a small growth, making a 
