OF HARTING. 469 



Goat willow (Salix caprea), so well known as the 

 " Palm Tree " that enlivens the hedges and copses 

 with its welcome sweet yellow Catkins, long before the 

 appearance of the leaf in the surrounding woodlands 

 is general. For the Common Osier (Salix viminalis) 

 we must go to Battine's piece, to a meadow at the 

 foot of Upperton Hollow, to Champs, the Barracks, 

 the Severals, Hill plantation, Pond-tail plantation, the 

 Sheep-wash and other covers, while the one locality in 

 the Parish for the Weeping Willow is the Vicarage 

 garden and meadow adjoining, where there are two 

 very fine specimens. 



" The many twinkling leaves " of the Aspen (Populus 

 tremula) were, not many years since, conspicuous 

 between the village of South Harting and the Culvers, 

 and have afforded us, in our entomological days, many 

 a fine specimen of the Puss moth, but the only aspen 

 now remaining in the village stands at the entrance to 

 the Vicarage garden. Unfortunately it has been de- 

 prived of its head, but its roots are making ample 

 amends for the loss by sending up, season after season, 

 a host of vigorous suckers ; this is so characteristic of 

 the species that if an old specimen be cut down to a 

 short distance from the ground, the stump will, in the 

 course of a very few seasons, become the centre of a 

 thriving nursery. Other examples of the aspen are 

 growing near the Hay barn at Downparks in the 

 Three-cornered piece on the waste near the Nyewoods, 

 and a particularly fine one is flourishing at the foot of 

 Gutter's Copse. 



The slender forms of all the Lombardy Poplars 

 (Populus fastigiata) in the Parish may probably be 

 recognized from the summit of Torberry, and it will at 

 once be evident that they are not -numerous. The 

 largest group is near Tye Oak, and a few others will 

 be seen in the East Harting meadows, near Hill Ash, 

 and in the Vicarage garden. Here we have more than 

 once passed between two very fine specimens which 



