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Salix forbyand) or English Basket Ozier. This forms 

 very long slender shoots, in the manner of the preceding, and 

 is extensively used for the same purposes. 



Salix helix, or Rose. This is a low growing tree ; the 

 body is covered with a rough yellow bark ; the branches are 

 upright, tough, and of a reddish colour; the leaves are nar- 

 row, smooth, and spear shaped ; the flowers come out from 

 the sides of the branches, are of a greenish white colour, and 

 have a singular and pretty appearance. 



Satix rubra, or Red Stemmed. This attains to about the 

 same dimensions as the preceding, and, with the three before 

 described, comprUes those kinds most extensively used in 

 Europe for basket-making, and other similar purposes. 



There are various other species of the Willow, many of 

 which are very curious, and some of them of beautiful ap- 

 pearance ; descriptions of all of which cannot be comprised in 

 this limited work. Those here described are, however, con- 

 sidered the most useful. They are, for the most part, na- 

 tives of moist soils, and the species of Willow suitable for 

 baskets are generally planted in such situations, and often 

 form the outline of wet meadows, being planted along the 

 ditches that are made to drain off the superfluous water. 

 They thus occupy space of little value, but well calculated 

 to make them yield a great profit, by their abundant shoots. 

 The immense expanse of meadows between New-York and 

 Newark, which some enierprizing gentlemen have been 

 long engaged in reclaiming, might, without further expense, 

 be appropriated to this object, and thereby furnish the means 

 for extensive manufactories of basket-work to a degree more 

 than adequate to supply the city. It is somewhat a matter 

 of astonishment, when such quantities of articles of this de- 

 scription are annually imported, that no persons have yet 

 formed establishments of the kind. 



Elm^ or Ulmus. Of this there are several species, all of 

 which are admired ornamental trees, and several are excel- 

 lent timber trees, while others are of too diminutive stature 

 for the latter purpose. 



Uinius montana. Scotch, or Witch Elm. This forms a 

 tree of immense size, and has, in some instances, attained in 

 England to 25 feet in circumference, at five feet from the 

 ground ; the leaves are very broad and oval, and calculated 

 for ornament ; the tree is of stately growth, and when it has 

 arrived at a large size, is very majestic, and in appearance 

 sometimes resembles the lofty oak, though in general pos- 



