EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 567 
The Weeping Arbor-Vital Biota ( Thuja ) pendula .—This is 
said to be a native of China, growing wild there; also said to be a 
seedling originated in an English nursery. Both statements may 
be true ; as it is not impossible that the foreign seeds may have 
been planted accidentally. Hoopes is quite confident that it is a 
seedling sport of the Chinese arbor-vitae. It is a hardy tree o r 
oblong form, with all its smaller branches quite pendulous, and 
regarded by those who have had it a long time as one of the most 
pleasing of the arbor-vitass;—perhaps, considering its peculiar 
weeping habit, the most interesting of all for a single specimen on 
a small place. Its beauty is heightened by winter protection. 
The Golden Arbor-Vit^e. Biota o. anrea.— This exquisite 
little tree or rather shrub is a variety of the Chinese, and though 
not perfectly hardy, is more so than its parent. Its rare shade o r 
green is truly golden, and its compact growth, pretty ovate form, 
and dwarf habit, combine to make it one of the most indispensable 
of evergreen shrubs. It is too easily protected in winter to make 
its slight tenderness a bar to its cultivation in all parts of the 
country. Height three to five feet. 
The Variegated Golden Arbor-Vital B. o. aurea variegata. 
—A variety originated in France. We have not seen it, and will 
quote Hoopes’ observations concerning it. “ In our opinion it is 
the most distinct and beautiful of the variegated conifers. The 
rich golden-yellow is so exquisitely shaded and mellowed down to 
pure white, and again so prettily tipped with pink, as to cause the 
most inveterate hater of these oddities to respect it.” In reply to 
Dr. Siebold’s assertion that these variations are but results of disease, 
and must therefore be of weaker habit than normal plants, he 
remarks : “ Practice certainly, in many instances, refutes this theory, 
for we frequently find the variegated forms even more hardy than 
the parent in its perfect state. A case in point is this variety, for it 
has proven itself less liable to injury from excessive cold weather, or 
sudden changes, than the species. It also stands our hot summers 
remarkably well. We also find the variegated yews to be more 
hardy than their parent.” There is another variegated variety called 
the elegantissima, on which the ends only of the branches are marked 
w'ith a warm yellow. 
