The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . lays and on elevated exposed places; norwill it thrive in places where the lime tree does not prosper. Itis one of the latest trees to come into full leaf, but the foliage isless subject to the ravages of insects than that of the sycamore. THE WILLOW. Salix. The willow family embraces an immense number of species andvarieties. Loudon describes nearly two hundred. They are of allsizes and forms, from creeping plants a few inches in height, up tot
The art of beautifying suburban home grounds of small extentWith descriptions of the beautiful and hardy trees and shrubs grown in the United States . lays and on elevated exposed places; norwill it thrive in places where the lime tree does not prosper. Itis one of the latest trees to come into full leaf, but the foliage isless subject to the ravages of insects than that of the sycamore. THE WILLOW. Salix. The willow family embraces an immense number of species andvarieties. Loudon describes nearly two hundred. They are of allsizes and forms, from creeping plants a few inches in height, up tothe magnificent weeping willow. The branches are uniformly slen-der and flexible, so that some varieties form the chief staple for bas-ket-making. Their growth is generally rapid and upright, the weep-ing varieties being exceptional. The white willow, , and thecommon weeping willow, S. habylonica^ become large trees in a fewyears. All the willows grow in moist soils, but the healthiest andmost durable trees are grown in a warm well-drained soil, wherewater can be reached by the roots at no great distance from the tree. DECIDUOUS TREES. 387. A WEKPINfi WILLOW ON STRATFORD AVEXUE, EAST BRIDGEPORT, CONS The Weeping Willow, Saiix babylonica, is by far the mostbeautiful of this great family, and its wonderful combination ofcharms are too common to be fully appreciated. It strikes rootfrom cuttings as readily as a currant twig, and then grows withgreat rapidity, becoming a tree of irregularly-rounded masses fiftyto sixty feet high and broad within twelve or fifteen years after planting. The weeping willow is the type of pensile trees. In their firstgrowth the branches aim bravely upward, but the slender subsi-diary branches soon give up all struggle with the laws of gravity, 388 DECIDUOUS TREES. and resign themselves to their foil with a graceful abandon thatis bewitching. The trunk and great branches become ruggedlymassive as the tree reaches maturity, and their deeply-furrowed
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