KINDS OF TREES, 



may be added, the Red- twigged Willow formerly 

 mentioned. 



As ornamental plants of lower growth, the 

 Rofe Willow (S. helix), the Sweet or bay-leaved 

 (S. pentandra), and the Golden Willow (S. vitel- 

 lina), may be mentioned. All of thefe, excepting 

 the Red-twigged, are natives : fome foreign fpe- 

 cies are likewife of an ornamental kind, particu- 

 larly the Weeping Willow (S. Babylonica), which 

 is a native of the Eaft. 



None of the fpecies, however, tower fo fad, or 

 become fo ufeful, as the Huntingdon, the Bedford, , 

 and the Red-twigged. * Were the Huntingdon not 

 fo very common, and fo frequently met with in low 

 or mean fcenery,- it might, perhaps, be reckoned 

 more ornamental than many of the other kinds. 

 They certainly are very elegant plants while young, 

 and in middle age : and if not piclurefque when 

 grown old, yet, there is fomething, very (Inking 

 in their hoary and reverend appearance. 



The 



* The Huntingdon is the most common willow pollard 

 in England ; few grown trees of it are to be seen in that 

 country ; while, in Scotland, . many very large trees are 

 frequently to be met with. The barbarous custom of pol- 

 larding trees "has not yet made very wide strides in the 

 North ; and it is to be hoped that it never will : however, 

 we felt a good deal vexed on lately seeing some fine oaks 

 and beeches decapitated, both as standards and in the 

 grove; and many pruned, mangled, and rumped up, to 

 " make them look English-like. " 



