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ILLUSTRATIVE DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
Walnut fjuglans). 
NIGRA (Black Walnut)—Another native species; of great size and majestic habit. Bark very 
dark and deeply furrowed. Foliage beautitul, each leaf being composed of from thirteen to 
seventeen leaflets. Nut round. 
Willow (Salix), 
ROSEMARY LEAVED ( Rosemarini folia's — Very distinct and ornamental, with long, glossy, 
silver foliage. Makes a striking and pretty small tree when worked standard high. 
Yellow Wood (Virgilea Lutea). 
One of the finest American trees, resembling the Robinias, with long racemes of white, sweet- 
scented flowers in June. 
WEEPING DECIDUOUS TREES. 
Cornus. 
NEW WEEPING ( Cornus Florida pendula)—\s a variety of the great Cornus Florida , which is 
itself known as one of the most beautiful of ornamental plants. It is admired especially for its 
large white foral bracts, which are succeeded by red berries as brilliant as the Holly, while in 
the Fall the deep red foliage is one of the chief elements in our brilliant Autumn scenery. A 
weeping variety of such a splendid plant would alone be a grand addition to our lists, even 
though it had to be grafted on tall stems, as other weeping plants are. But this beautiful plant 
has one advantage in which it stands alone among weeping 
trees ; while every branch is heavily pendulous, the leader 
ascends straight as aji arrow , and makes a plant which 
charms every one by its regular beauty, so unusual in 
weeping trees. It has this further peculiarity: The 
branches are thrown out in parts, at regular intervals, and 
on each side, directly opposite each other, and the branches 
next above growing so as to droop exactly between those 
below. It possesses the perfect hardiness of the Cornus 
famih , even the tops of the limbs and terminal buds pass¬ 
ing through the severest Winters without injury. The 
engraving is from a three-year old plant, grafted near the 
ground, and has been suffered to grow just as it may with¬ 
out any aid whatever from knife or string. 
Thomas Meehan, editor of the Gardener’s Monthly, says 
of it: “The common white Cornus of our woods is well- 
known over the Atlantic portion of the United States, and 
so well appreciated for its many beautiful characters, that 
it is in great demand in ornamental gardening. It attains 
only abrut twenty-five feet in height when full grown, and 
as it flowers when but five or six feet high, it may be 
called rather a large shrub than a tree, and is, therefore 
adapted to small grounds as well as large places. The 
large white bracts are about three inches across, and have 
much the appearance of clematis flowers. These appear 
in early Spring and are very showy. Towards autumn 
these are succeeded by red berries, as large as peas, in 
clusters, and for this alone many regard it as one of the 
most beautiful of plants. But later there is the gay attrac¬ 
tion of its autumn leaves, which are among the richest in 
color of those which make American autumn scenery so 
beautiful. 
“This new Weeping Cornus is a variety of this, and it has 
all the valuable characteristics of the normal form, with 
the addition of the pendulous branches of the most 
thoroughly weeping tree, and in addition a character 
thoroughly unique among weepers, that its leading shoot 
is perfectly erect . Other weeping trees have to be grafted 
high on the stock, so that their branches may hang down 
but this may be grafted near the ground, and the main 
stem will arise straight as an arrow. This striking charac¬ 
ter will enable the cultivator to make more beautiful speci- 
mens out of it than has perhaps ever been offered by any 
NEWWEEPtNG cornus (Cornus Florida pendulating tree. I have never known a weeping tree to 
combine so many admirable peculiarities in one as this Weeping Cornus does.” 
