. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. The Canadian Horticulturist. 267 WEEPING HAVE frequently been asked whether weeping trees were, or were not, made by inserting grafts or buds top downwards, and I have often heard it asserted (although not lately), that that was the way weepers are made. During the past few years I have been afforded considerable amusement watching experi- ments by a person who has on his lawn a tree which, when planted, was mountain ash. After the sapsuckers girdled the trunk, fhe fairly good sized head died and
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1893. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. The Canadian Horticulturist. 267 WEEPING HAVE frequently been asked whether weeping trees were, or were not, made by inserting grafts or buds top downwards, and I have often heard it asserted (although not lately), that that was the way weepers are made. During the past few years I have been afforded considerable amusement watching experi- ments by a person who has on his lawn a tree which, when planted, was mountain ash. After the sapsuckers girdled the trunk, fhe fairly good sized head died and was taken off. A vigorous upright shoot came out from near the root, and in course of time it grew to be quite a tree which showed no indica- tion to weep. Not understanding the cause of this phenomenon the owner drove tent pegs into the ground, bent down the branches and with cords fastened them to the pegs, thus making the tree have somewhat the appearance of a weeper. Last year, however, all the young shoots inclined to upright growth, and now the tree is in the shape of a round crowned hat, with an up turned rim. On a lawn, not far from this tree, grows another (so called) weeping moun- tain ash, with stem or trunk only six feet high. The straggling trailing branches about twenty feet long, and propped up with crotched sticks, forming altogether a very distasteful object. Similar instances are not at all uncommon. Whoever will have artificial weepers, should procure only such as have suitable stems or trunks. For the mountain ash the trunk should be not less than twelve feet long. For elms and poplars the trunk should be longer. I have noticed that on dry land, all the willows are short lived. I used to think they were not hardy enough. They require moisture throughout the summer. When on Wolfe Island-last sum- mer I observed a number of magnificent specimens of the common weeping willow (Salix Babylonica), tall trees with long, slender pendulous branches, far exceeding in
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