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¥ S. 6. 1 vulgaris fem. Hort. has pale green young shoots, slender, with 
an angular twist above the axil of each leaf, and large stipules. It 
is the most common weeping willow in the neighbourhood of London, 
and flowers in June. 
* S. 6. 2 Napoleona Hort. has round shoots, generally reddish, and the 
leaves are without stipules. It is of very vigorous growth ; and there 
“are a number of plants of this kind in a brickfield close to the 
Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell; one at the Marsh Gate, Richmond, 
near the Poorhouse; and one at the Ferry, near Ham House. Mr. 
Castles’s son, Mr. George Castles, says there are also some by the 
canal side, near Brentford.” The tree at Richmond, when measured 
for us in November 1836, was 60 ft. high, and the diameter of the 
trunk was 3 ft. 3 in. 
¥ S. 4. 3 crispa Hort.; S. annularis Forbes in Sal. Wob., No. 21., 
with a fig. of the female; our fig. 21. in p. 1606.; and the plate of 
this tree in our last Volume. The ring-leaved Willow.— Leaves lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, serrated, curled, or twisted, glabrous, and glaucous 
beneath. Young twigs erect, pubescent at the points. Stipules 
half-heart-shaped. Ovary ovate, glabrous, and sessile. Stigmas 
notched. (Sal. Wob., p.41.) The preceding year’s branches are 
pendulous. A garden production, of uncertain origin, easily dis- 
tinguished from the common weeping willow (S. babylonica), by the 
crowded mass of its young twigs, and its curled leaves. The tree 
does not appear as though it would attain the same height as the 
species. The catkins of the ring-leaved willow appear in May. 
The piant of this variety in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, and 
figured in our last Volume, was, in 1834, 17 ft. high. 
Statistics of the Species. Sdlix babylénica in the Environs of London. There are many immense 
trees on the banks of the Thames, and in villa gardens where the soil is moist, from 50 ft. to 60 ft. 
high, with heads 60 ft. or 80 ft. in diameter. Inthe Horticultural Society’s Garden, in 1834, two 
trees, 8 years f aopiny were 18 ft. high. At Mount Grove, Hampstead, 4 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. 
Salix babylénica South of London. n Devonshire, in Bystock Park, 12 years planted, it is 24 ft. 
high ; at Endsleigh Cottage, 10 years planted, 20 ft. high. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 20 years 
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