1952

ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III

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greater breadth, like the leaves of a willow. This variety, which maybe designated as more curious than beautiful, is very apt to return tothe normal form. There were, in 1834, handsome small trees ofthis variety in the Horticultural Society’s Garden; and there areplants at Messrs. Loddiges’s, and in other London nurseries. InBerkshire, at White Knights, this variety, 25 years planted, is 22 ft.high; in Durham, at Southend, it is between 40ft. and 50ft. high.In the Perth Nursery, 20 years planted, it is 22 ft. high. At OrielTemple, in Ireland, 20 years planted, it is 22 ft. high.

iF. 1.6 cristdta Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; F. s. crispa Hart. ; Hetre Cretede Coq, Fr. ; the crested, or curled-leaved, Beech ; our Jig. 1877.;and the plate of,this treein our last Volume. — Thisvariety is a monstrosity,with the leaves small, andalmost sessile, and crowdedinto small dense tufts,which occur at intervalsalong the branches. Thetree never attains a largesize, as may be expectedfrom its deficiency in foli-age. The wood of this va-riety, as shown in Sepps’sleones Lignorum, t. 3. f. 2.,is quite different from thatof the common beech;being dark, and curiouslycurled and veined. Thereis a specimen of this varietyin the Glasnevin BotanicGarden, 31 years planted,which is 20 ft. high.

¥ F. i. 7 pendula Lodd. Cat., ed.

1836; Hetre Parasol, Fr, ; the weeping Beech. (Seethe plate ofthis tree, which is a portrait, taken in 1835, from one still standingin the Kensington Nursery, in our last Volume.)—When thisvariety is grafted standard high, it forms a very singular and highlybeautiful object, well deserving a place in collections of weeping