CHAP. Cll. SALICA‘CEZ. SA‘LIX. 1527 
species, which stand on the margin of a pond, and were planted as cuttings 
there in 1808, and measured for us in 1836. The height of these trees was 
respectively 60 ft., 63 ft., 60 ft., 70ft., and 71 ft.; and they contained in the 
trunk 17ft., 20ft., 16ft., 42ft., and 22ft., and, with the addition of the 
branches and bark, 55 ft., 85 ft., 40 ft., 101 ft., and 60 ft. It thus appears that 
the largest tree had increased in its trunk at the average yearly rate of exactly 
14 cubic foot, and, in the trunk and head taken together, at the rate of more 
that 34 cubic feet ; which increase accords in avery satisfactory manner with 
that above recorded by Mr. Gorrie. 
Pontey calculates that an acre of land worth 3/. 10s. annually for rent and 
taxes, if planted with the Huntingdon willow in sets cut from shoots of two 
years’ growth, and 10 in. or 12 in. in length, would, in 7 years, be worth 
67/. 10s. per acre ; thus affording a clear profit of 39/. a year. (Prof. Plant, 
4th ed., p. 72.) 
Sir J. E. Smith, in speaking of this willow, says that the bark is thick, full 
of cracks, good for tanning, and for the cure of agues, though inferior in 
quality to that of S. Russellidna, “the true Bedford, or Huntingdon, willow.” 
We are certain that in Scotland, and, we think, frequently in England, the term 
“ Huntingdon willow ” is applied to S. alba. 
Salix alba is one of the few willows which Gilpin thinks. “ beautiful, and fit 
to appear in the decoration of any rural scene. It has a small narrow leaf, 
with a pleasant light sea-green tint, which mixes agreeably with foliage of a 
deeper hue.” In ornamental plantations, care should be taken never to plant 
this species of willow with trees which are not of equally rapid growth with 
itself; for, with the exception of poplars, no tree so soon destroys the character 
of young plantations of hard-wooded trees, such as pines, oaks, beeches, &c. 
Perhaps one of the best situations, in point of ornament, is on the banks of a 
broad river or lake, ample room being allowed for the head to expand on 
every side; but, when the object is to produce clean straight timber, the tree 
requires to be drawn up in masses. It is observed by Sang, that, if “the 
Huntingdon willow were not so very common, and so frequently met with in 
low or mean scenery, it might, perhaps, be reckoned more ornamental than 
many of the other kinds. They certainly are very elegant plants when young, 
and in middle age; and, if not picturesque when grown old, yet there is some- 
thing very striking in their hoary and reverend appearance.” (Plant. Kal.) 
Statistics.— Recorded Trees. Mitchell speaks of a Huntingdon willow, near the Lodge of Milton 
House, Northamptonshire, 70 ft. high, with a head 60 ft. in diameter, and the stem 13 ft. in circum. 
terence, There is 4 holt of this willow, he says, in Cheshire, between the river Weaver and the 
Manchester canal, the trees in which are 70 ft. high. In Farey’s Derbyshire Report, it it stated, that 
a tree of Salix alba, felled at Wilksworth, produced 156 ft. of timber, which sold at 2s, 6d. per foot. 
Salix dlba in England. Near London, at Ham House, Essex, it is 79 ft. high, with a trunk 2 ft. 
3in. in diameter; on the Common of Turnham Green, the tree of which a portrait is given 
our last Volume was 65 ft. high, but it was blown down 
in the hurricane of the 29th of November, 1836. In 
Devonshire, at Killerton, it is 65 ft. high, with a trunk 
2ft. 10in. in diameter, In Gloucestershire, at Dodding- 
ton, 46 years planted, it is 60 ft. high; the diameter of 
the trunk 24ft., and of the head 50 ft. In Cheshire, 
at Eaton Hall, 17 years planted, it is 50 ft. high. In Den. 
bighshire, at Llanbede Hall, 40 years planted, it is 57ft. 
high. In Oxfordshire, near Oxford, on the banks of the 
Cherwell, it is 60 ft. high ; the diameter of the trunk 4 ft., 
and of the head 60ft. In Pembrokeshire, at Stackpole 
Court, 50 years planted, it is 60 ft. high. In Rutiandshire, 
at Belvoir Castle, 26 years planted, itis 50 ft. high. In 
Suffolk, at Bury St. Edmunds, near the site of theancient “= 
church, a tree of this species, in 1835, was 75 ft. high; the “*: 
circumference of the trunk 18 ft. 6 in., and that of the two 
principal limbs 15 ft. and 12 ft. rpapectively 5 the circum. 
ference of the space covered by the branches was 204 ft., 
and the cubic contents of the tree were 440 ft. of solid tim- 
ber. The above dimensions were taken tromMr. Strutt’s 
Sylva, who has given an engraving of the tree, from 
which fig. 1316. is reduced to the scale of lin. to 50 ft. = =e 
This tree began to decay in 1835; and in November, 1836, as we are informed by Mr. Turner, three 
fourths of it were dead ; so that it now presents a splendid ruin. In Yorkshire, at Hornby Castle, it is 
70 ft. high, the diameter of the trunk 4} ft., and of the head 80 ft. 
Salix diba in Scotland. Near Edinburgh, at Hopetoun House, it is 70ft. high; diameter of trunk 
4 ft, Qin. ; and of the head 65ft. In Haddingtonshire, at Tyningham, it is 36 tt. high; the diameter 
