28 EDWARD W. BERRY 



the region of the Alps and the valley of the Danube, record the 

 time when early man ceased being merely a nomadic hunter and 

 came to occupy fixed abodes and garnered some crops. And 

 when the race passed from lake dwelhngs to fortified and moated 

 habitations in the swamps and along the rivers of southern 

 Europe, the willows must have been one of the familiar and use- 

 ful plants in their immediate environment, during what is called 

 the Terramara period, so that they should have at least a senti- 

 mental interest for the modern race. 



