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S. b. 1 vulgdris foem. Hort. has pale green young shoots, slender, with 

 an angular twist above the axil of each leaf, and large stipules. It 

 is the most common weeping willow in the neighbourhood of London, 

 and flowers in June. 



^ S. b. 2 Napoleons. Hort. has round shoots, generally reddish, and the 

 leaves are without stipules. It is of very vigorous growth ; and there 

 " are a number of plants of this kind in a brickfield close to the 

 Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell; one at the Marsh Gate, Richmond, 

 near the Poorhouse ; and one at the Ferry, near Ham House. Mr. 

 Castles' s son, Mr. George Castles, says there are also some by the 

 canal side, near Brentford." The tree at Richmond, when measured 

 for us in November 1836, was 60 ft. high, and the diameter of the 

 trunk was 3 ft. 3 in. 



3f S. b. 3 crixpa Hort.; S. annularis Forbes in Sal. Wob. y No. 21., 

 with a fig. of the female; our Jig. 21. in p. 1606. ; and the plate of 

 this tree in our last Volume. The ring-leaved Willow. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, serrated, curled, or twisted, glabrous, and glaucous 

 beneath. Young twigs erect, pubescent at the points. Stipules 

 half-heart-shaped. Ovary ovate, glabrous, and sessile. Stigmas 

 notched. (Sal. Wob. y p. 41.) The preceding year's branches are 

 pendulous. A garden production, of uncertain origin, easily dis- 

 tinguished from the common weeping willow (S. babylonica), by the 

 crowded mass of its young twigs, and its curled leaves. The tree 

 does not appear as though it would attain the same height as the 

 species. The catkins of the ring-leaved willow appear in May. 

 The plant of this variety in the Horticultural Society's Garden, and 

 figured in our last Volume, was, in 1834, 17 ft. high. 



Statistics of the Species. Salix babyldnica in the Environs of London. There are many immense 

 trees on the banks of the Thames, and in villa gardens where the soil is moist, from 50 ft. to 60 ft. 

 high, with heads 60 ft. or 80 ft. in diameter. In the Horticultural Society's Garden, in 1834, two 

 trees, 8 years planted, were 18 ft. high. At Mount Grove, Hampstead, 4 years planted, it is 12 ft. high. 



Sa/i> babylonica South of London. In Devonshire, in Bystock Park, 12 years planted, it is 24 ft. 

 high ; at Endsleigh Cottage, 10 years planted, 20 ft. high. In Dorsetshire, at Melbury Park, 20 years 



