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Sherman Nursery Company, Charles City, Iowa 
Weeping Trees 
Patten’s Weeping 1 Elm 
CUT LEAF WEEPING BIRCH (Betula Alba 
Pendula) —Our finest, hardy, medium-tall 
tree. The delicately cut leaves on graceful 
drooping branches with the gleaming silvery- 
white bark make it beautiful summer and 
winter. Especially fine for lawns as it will 
not kill out the grass around the tree. A 
splendid specimen tree for lawn or cemetery. 
CATALPA BUNGEII (Umbrella Catalpa) - 
The large heart-shaped leaves and umbrella¬ 
like top of this little tree make it a favorite 
for lawn planting and formal setting. This 
is a grafted tree, the top being a special weep¬ 
ing form. 
WEEPING MOUNTAIN ASH — A pendulous 
weeper of irregular, rapid growth; some¬ 
times planted in the center of small arbors 
and trained about them as a vine. 
NIOBE WEEPING WILLOW —Perfectly har¬ 
dy and very beautiful; a new golden variety. 
It grows to a very large tree. Sometimes 
making a height of 7 5 to 100 feet with long- 
slender branches 6 to 12 feet, which hang 
like whip lashes from the limbs; very desir¬ 
able, especially along the banks of lakes, 
pools and streams. 
PATTEN’S WEEPING ELM —This is a sport 
from the common White Elm in use as street 
trees. It is of distinct weeping character 
with low, spreading branches. The old 
original tree is twenty inches through the 
body, has a wonderful spreading top ninety 
feet across, and only thirty-eight feet to the 
top-most branch. A wonderful shade tree 
of grace and beauty. We are reproducing 
this excellent weeping type, by grafting it 
onto the top of our common White Elm, 
ten to twelve feet from the ground, and con¬ 
tinuing to grow it two years before sending 
to our customers. It is hardy, admired by 
all who see it and of special value as a shade 
and ornamental tree. 
TEA’S WEEPING MULBERRY —This tree is 
similar in general appearance and habit of 
growth to the Kilmarnock Weeping Willow, 
but it grows much more rapidly and the 
branches are more drooping. This variety 
will frequently grow from 5 to 6 feet in a 
season, and it is nothing uncommon to see 
the branches trailing on the ground. The 
leaf is of the same general form as the 
Russian Mulberry, of which it is a variety. 
We regard this as the hardiest of all dwarf 
weepers. 
WIER'S CUT-LEAVED MAPLE —This is one 
of the most beautiful of our hardy trees, 
having cut or dissected foliage. Its growth 
is rapid, the shoots slender and drooping, 
giving it a habit almost as graceful as the 
Cut-Leaved Birch. 
