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few of new ornamental varieties; these are grafted or 
budded on other kinds. 
SaLrx ALBA ( White Willow).—Leaves lanceolate, point- 
ed, covered with small silky hairs; young branches gray- 
ish white; tree a rapid grower, fifty to eighty feet high. 
The common Golden Willow is a variety of this species ; 
native of Europe, but common in cultivation and along 
the banks of streams in all of the Eastern States. The 
White-Willow mania has been quite prevalent for the last 
few years, a few nurserymen having sent out numerous 
agents to extol it as a hedge-plant. That it will grow 
rapidly and form an impenetrable hedge in a few years is 
indisputable, but that a tree which naturally grows to 
sixty feet high can be kept within the bounds usually al- 
lotted to hedges is questionable at least. It is doubtless 
worthy of cultivation for its timber, but for hedges or 
screens there are many native shrubs and trees which are 
far better. 
Satrx Basytonta ( Weeping Willow).—The very name 
of this tree sends our thoughts back to olden times, when 
nations destroyed nations and war was the chief employ- 
ment of man. It has been’a favorite tree with all civil- 
ized nations, and there is scarcely a poet from Virgil down 
to the present time who has not woven its praises into 
verse. It is certainly a beautiful tree, and when introdue 
ed sparingly among other trees, or beside a stream, pond, 
or fountain, it is not surpassed. When planted in large 
masses on grounds of limited extent, or in long, straight 
rows, as we often see it by the roadside, it produces any- 
thing but a pleising effect. The Weeping Willow and 
