82 Trees with Simple Leaves. [Air 



" The French, finding their native forests giving out, 

 took to planting a species of willow, Salix vitelllna, 

 largely for hoops. So successful have they been that, 

 besides raising all they want for their own use, they now 

 export largely to British markets. Scotch herring barrels 

 are chiefly bound with French willow hoops." 



Fig. 42. Weeping Willow. [S. Babylbnica, Tourn^ 

 Leaves, SIMPLE ; ALTERNATE ; EDGE SHARP-TOOTHED. 



Outline, narrow lance-shape. Apex, taper-pointed. Base, 

 pointed. 



Leaf, about five inches long by three fourths of an inch 

 wide ; somewhat silky, or smooth. 



Branches and branchlets, very long, curved, and drooping 

 nearly to the ground. 



Introduced, from Europe, now common, and much used in 

 ornamental cultivation. 



A tree thirty to forty feet high. 



The Latin name (Babylonica) was suggested by the 

 lament of the Hebrews, in the i37th Psalm. 



" By the rivers of Babylon there we sat down : 

 Yea we wept when we remembered Zion. 

 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof." 



