CHAPTER II. 



Trees which are most suited to damp Situations The Duke of Bedford's 

 " Salictum Woburnense "The Goat Willow Bark of the Willow 

 astringent Embanking The White or Huntingdon Willow 

 Russell's, or the Bedford Willow Johnson's Willow Large 

 Willow at Sion American Weeping Willow Kilmarnock 

 Weeping Willow The Alder Wood of the Alder used in making 

 Fish-barrels The Alder an Agent for reclaiming Land Planting 

 The Poplar Cobbett and the Poplar Tree Prince Piickler 

 Muskau's Opinion The Lombardy Poplar Poplars on the Con- 

 tinent, and Poplar Fences Black Italian Poplar The Gray 

 Poplar The White Poplar White Egyptian Poplar The 

 Trembling-leaved Poplar, or Aspen The Balsam Poplar The 

 Ontario Poplar The Lime, or Linden Attempt^to assassinate the 

 German Emperor The Horse Chestnut Scarlet Flowering 

 Chestnut. 



I shall proceed to class those trees which succeed 

 best in damp situations, the greatest variety of which, 

 is to be found amongst the willow tribe, which is the 

 type of the natural order Salicacecz, the genus Salix, 

 belonging to the Dicecia diandria of Linnseus. It 

 comprehends many diverse species and varieties, from 

 the osiers I have just been describing, to trees fifty 

 feet in height, there being no genus of plants in general 

 cultivation, whose species are so much confused as 

 that of the willow, which arises from various causes. 

 Some of the leading kinds have become hybridised, 

 and yielded numerous intermediate varieties; and 



