An English gardener, writing to The Garden, thinks it is " one of the most elegant of all our hardy deciduous trees, and very rare as a large tree. The specimen growing in my gardens, densely covers a walk 10 feet wide for a distance of 130 feet, its side branches spreading full 15 feet on each side down to the ground. It is of so recumbent a form of growth, that a very powerful support to the branches is necessary to allow of sufficient height for walking underneath. Some few years ago, a double row of polished oak posts, 8 feet high, was erected under it on each side of the walks, with iron posts just under the stem and main branches, and cross-bearers at intervals, to support the lateral branches, which have covered the whole structure so effectually, that the sun's rays cannot penetrate it. The branches grow perfectly flat on the trellis, requiring no training, and there is not one on the whole tree rising to a greater height than 15 feet. I have seen Larix pendula mentioned in Nursery Catalogues, as growing from 30 to 50 feet high.

Possibly this may be a distinct variety."

The Weeping Larch #1

This is one of the most elegant of all our hardy deciduous trees, and I presume that it is rare, at least as a large tree, as I have never yet seen or heard of any approaching the size of one growing in these gardens, which densely covers a walk ten feet wide, for a distance of 130 feet, its side branches spreading full fifteen feet on each side, down to the ground. It is of so recumbent a form of growth, that a very powerful support to the branches is necessary, to allow of sufficient height for walking underneath.

Some few years since, a double row of polished Oak posts, eight feet high, was erected under it; on each side of the walk, with iron posts just under the stem and main branches, and crow-bearers at intervals, to support the lateral branches; which have covered the whole structure so effectually, that the sun's rays cannot penetrate it. The branches grow perfectly flat on the trellis, requiring no training, and there is not one on the whole tree rising to a greater height than fifteen feet. - The Garden.

The Weeping Larch #2

We are glad to see the use of this encouraged for ornamental grounds by so good an authority as The Garden. It is considered by that journal one of the most elegant of all our hardy deciduous trees. A mammoth specimen tree is described by a contributor as now living in the Kew gardens, which densely covers a walk ten feet wide for a circuit of 130 feet, its side branches spreading full fifteen feet on each side, down to the ground. It is of so recumbent a form of growth that a very powerful support to the branches is necessary, to allow of sufficient height for walking underneath.

Some few years since a double row of polished oak posts, eight feet high, was erected under it, on each side of the walk, with iron posts just under the stem and main branches, and cross at intervals to support the lateral branches, which have covered the whole structure so effectually that the sun's rays cannot penetrate it. The branches grow perfectly flat on the trellis, requiring no training, and there is not one on the whole tree rising to a greater height than fifteen feet.