Identifier: treesshrubshardy01bean (find matches)
Title: Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bean, William Jackson, 1863-
Subjects: Shrubs Trees
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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la. „ Mahaleb pendula. ,, Mume pendula.* ,, pendula. „ serotina pendula.Pyrus Aucuparia pendula. ,, prunifolia pendula. „ salicifolia pendula. Quercus palustris pendula. ,, pedunculata pendula.Rhus Cotinus pendula.*Salix babylonica. ,, ,, annularis. ,, Caprea pendula. * ,, elegantissima. ,, purpurea pendula. * ,, Salamoni. ,, vitellina pendula.Sambucus nigra pendula.Sophora japonica pendula.Syringa pekinensis pendula.*Tamarix juniperina.*Tilia petiolaris.Ulmus montana pendula.,, nitens pendula. Conifers. Abies pectinata pendula. Cedrus atlantica pendula. Cupressus Lawsoniana glauca pendula. „ „ gracilis. ,, ,, pendula. ,, nootkatensis pendula. Ginkgo biloba pendula.*Juniperus formosana. * „ rigida. ,, virginiana pendula. Larix europaea pendula.Picea excelsa Cranstoni.,, ,, invcrta. ,, ,, pendula. Pinus Strobus pendula.Sequoia gigantea pendula.Taxus baccata Dovastoni. ,, ,, gracilis pendula. ,, ,, pendula. Thuya orientalis pendula.Tsuga canadensis pendula.„ „ Sargentii.
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CHAPTER XIV Fastigiate or Erect-branched Trees. Among the aberrant forms of garden trees those with a pendulous or weeping habit are, on the whole, much more planted than those withan opposite tendency of branching. Probably the reason for this is thatpendulous-branched trees are prettier and more graceful than the others.A certain kind of sentimentality is attached to weeping trees which ispleasing to many minds. There is more of an aspect of austerity or evenrigid sternness about a fastigiate tree. Still, if we value trees for theemotions they inspire—and after all that is probably their chief value—there is something to be said for these erect-growing kinds. To me, atany rate, few trees are more admirable than a well-grown, well-placedLombardy poplar, conveying as it does, in much the same way as a finechurch spire, a sense of lofty aspiration. The value of such trees in the garden landscape is well known,relieving low, monotonous lines of vegetation as they do more effectually

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