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and from the quality of the timber at every age will, it 

 is to be hoped, be a means of extending its culture. By 

 planting this tree thick, and by regular weedings, a 

 conftant fupply of wood may be had, for a number of 

 the purpofes of agriculture, where grofs timber is not 

 required, as for hafts for different kinds of tools, for 

 ruitic gates and paling, but particularly for pofts, as it 

 bears the trying viciffitudes from wet to dry, better 

 than any wood we know. 



Sallow ; fal/'x. -'All the varieties of this tree are ufe- 

 ful in their way ; fome of them are of a flow growth, 

 and do not arrive at any great fize ; fome of them, on 

 the contrary, grow quickly, arrive at a confiderable 

 height and thicknefs, and afford for many purpofes ex- 

 cellent timber. The kinds, which are molt frequently 

 planted in this country, are ift. the common ballcet- 

 maker's willow ; this has the two perfections, of tough 

 branches at an early age, and, when allowed to {land, 

 that of growing to a large tree, and of affording good 

 timber : the fecond is, the fweet, or bay-leaved wil- 

 low, from the broadnefs and polifh of its leaves ; this 

 grows not fo quickly as the firft, but is much fuperior 

 in beauty : the third fort is diftinguifhed in this county 

 by the name of gaugamel (a name given to it by a 

 drunken gardener) ; this is beyond all the other kinds, 

 for the rapid progrefs it makes in every foil } its 

 branches, when young, are tender, and not fit for baf- 

 kets or hoops j but, when grown to a tree, its timber is 



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