Planting Willows and Pines 



which was driven into the ground, and HOW we did 

 firmly stamped into place. It was found 

 better, in driving them, to have them set at 

 an angle of about twenty degrees, with the 

 tops pointing toward the south, so that 

 the stems did not receive the full force of 

 the midday and afternoon sun. We used 

 the common White Willow (Salix alba), 

 which abounds along swampy roadsides 

 everywhere in New England. 



These trees have all thriven well, though 

 owing to the marsh being salter in certain 

 places than in others, some have grown 

 less rapidly than their companions. The 

 fear of the salt water led us into the error 

 of planting one row of trees at first inside 

 the fence, and at some distance from it, 

 where the presence of Clover and English 

 Grass showed that the top soil was fresh. 

 Subsequently, when they were all well 

 rooted, we removed them to the outside 

 along the highway, where they now begin 

 to make an agreeable shade and an effec- 

 tive screen. The annual dumpings of sand 

 made by the town along the edge of the 

 road, to maintain its level, which con- 

 stantly tends to sink into the marsh across 



