The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-07-19
CUT-LEAvED WEEPING BIRcH.

two of sorts offer, this fine old tree is not
to be despised. It is an error to suppose
that it must be confined to a damp place.
We can point to many fine one on lawns
with other trees, and to more than one set
near dwelling-houses for shade. When OF
full growth, and before it commences to de-
cline, it is beautiful tree. This cannot be
said of all weepers, for some are not pretty,
though many are odd aud interesting. The
weeping beech, for instance, for some years
makes an angular, sprawing growth, but
becomes pretty with age. The weeping
mountain ash makes sprawling, une0uth
growth, and others of like character could
be named.
In the following list will be found most
of the weepers of the present time: Com
mon willow, Kilmarnock and American
willow; ash, both green and yellow barked !;
beech; cherry, in several kinds; Pyras park
,nanni deciduous cypress; dOgwood; null
berry; elm, in several sorts; laburnum; lin
den; birch, in several kinds; earagana !;
syringa; mountain ash; ney-locust, and
larch.
The beech, after it reaches hight Of
about 10 feet, becomes pretty tree, espee-
tally when clothed with its bright-green
foliage, and its attraetiveness ss large tree
is well known. The weeping dogwood is .
dropping form of the ordinary large white
one of our woods 1t makes a central up
right shoot, the side cnes being the weepers.
Bearing the same large white flowers and
scarlet berries as the normal type does, and
having the same scarlet foliage in the Au-
tumn, it is greatly admired tree. The cut
leayed weeping birch also makes an upright
growth, the side branches dropping as they
THE Tun Of the tai
trees IN cultivation. The leaves are finely
divided, the branches slender, and add to
this its lovely white bark-for it is vari-
ETY. of the English white bireh-and it gives
a good many points of excellence.
Many plant white birches purely for their
white bark, and In this tree they get what
they wish with all the other attractions as
well. There are two other weeping birches,
one called Youngi, of zigzag, dropping
growth; another, Ai6G pefduld, forming q
pendulous head of slender branches.
The rest of the weepers named above are
mainly low-growing ones. That is to say,
they are such as are usually grated on stems
of about six feet in hight and spread out
umbrella-shape, but make no upright
growth, so become no taller. In the class
of larger-growing ones of these are the ash,
of which there is green barked and q
yellow barked one, the green max
ing the most spreading growth. The
elm follows, one, the Camperdown, be-
ing fayorits, because of the graceful sweep
of its branches. The linden also affords
more than one of this class. One, Parmen-
teri, makes highly-ornamentsl tree.
OF less heavy growth are these: Kill
marnock willow, weeping mulberry, lilac,
lahurnum, cypress, Pyrns parkmanni, and
cherry. The Kilmsrnock is a well-known
useful weeping tree. Its dropping branches
curve from where grated, and soon sweep
the ground. Teas weeping mulberry is .
distinct sort. Its branches turn almost alb
fuptly aud with but little curve, and very
soon touch the ground. It is very much val
ued. The lilac, soealled, is not alilae as most
persons understand it. 1t is one botanic
ally, belonging to the Syringa family, in
which all hlacs are, but in appearance of
leaf and flower it is more like privet, to
which, in fact, it is closely related When
grated on stems of about six feet in hight
it forms a pretty partly-weeping tree. But
do not suppose, if you order it from some
nursery, that you are going to get weep
ing common hlac.-C0untry Gentleman.