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one or two year old wood, the latter making 

 vigorous trees the soonest. The pieces, be- 

 ing cut into lengths about three inches long, 

 may be stuck their full length in any moist 

 waste piece of ground any time in early 

 spring before the bursting of the bud. 



2. S. ALBA, Linnceus. Leaves elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, toothed, white and silky 

 beneath, the lowest teeth glandular. Flowers 

 appearing with the leaves. Ovaries smooth, 

 sessile. White willow. Native of Europe. 

 Naturalized in the United States. 



A handsome round-headed tree, growing 

 well in any soil or situation, where it will 

 easily attain a height of fifty feet. In wet 

 swampy places I have seen it between seventy 

 and eighty, and with a trunk of large diame- 

 ter. 



3. S. ALBA, var. Vitellina. S. vitellina, 

 Linnwus, now reduced to a variety of alba, 

 has the leaves shorter and broader, and 

 more spreading orange-yellow branches, but 

 is in every other respect similar. Its golden 

 bark contrasts beautifully with its deep-green 

 leaves, and even in winter imparts a cheerful- 

 ness to garden scenery. 



