CHAP, xix SYLVA 159 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Of the Withy, Sallow, Ozier, and Willow. 



1 . Salix : Since Cato has attributed the third place 

 to the salictum, preferring it even next to the very 

 ortyard ; and (what one would wonder at) before 

 even the olive, meadow, or corn-field it self (for 

 salictum tertio loco, nempe post "fiineam, &c.) and that we 

 find it so easily rais'd, of so great, and universal use, 

 I have thought good to be the more particular in my 

 discourse upon it ; especially, since so much of that 

 which I shall publish concerning them, is derived 

 from the long experience of a most learned and in- 

 genious person, from whom I acknowledge to have 

 received many of these hints. Not to perplex the 

 reader with the various names, Greek, Gallic, Sabin, 

 Amerine, Vitex, &c. better distinguished by their 

 growth and bark ; and by Latin authors all compre- 

 hended under that of salices ; our English books reckon 

 them promiscuously thus ; the common-white wil- 

 low, the black, and the hard-black, the rose of Cam- 

 bridge, the black-withy, the round-long sallow ; the 

 longest sallow, the crack-willow, the round-ear'd 

 shining willow, the lesser broad-leav'd willow, silver 

 sallow, upright broad-willow, repent broad-leav'd, the 

 red-stone, the lesser willow, the strait-dwarf, the long- 

 leav'd yellow sallow, the creeper, the black-low wil- 

 low, the willow-bay, and the ozier. I begin with 

 the withy. 



2. The withy is a reasonable large tree, (for some 

 have been found ten foot about) is fit to be planted 



