THE NURSERY. 



Propagating Willows. 



All the kinds of Willows may be eafily propa- 

 gated by cuttings. Such as are intended for be- 

 ing rooted in the nurfery, fliould be taken from 

 the firm wood of laft-year fhoots. The cuttings 

 fhould be nine inches long, and planted as above 

 dire&ed for Poplar cuttings. 



The foil beft adapted for ftriking Willows, is 

 fuch as is above recommended for the Elder and 

 Poplars. Willow cuttings, however, which are 

 to be planted at once in the field, to yield rods 

 for bafkets, hoops, and the like, may be taken 

 from two-year old wood, and formed into cut- 

 tings of about two feet long, marpened at one 

 end. This method is perhaps rather obje&ion- 

 able, from the vaft quantity of Willows thus re- 

 quired to plant any confiderable extent ; hence 

 the cuttings are generally taken from the one-year 

 ihoots alfo, and are formed into fets of only a foot 

 long. Thefe anfwer pretty welL In planting in 

 the field, they fhould be pufhed in, fo as to leave 

 four or five inches above ground. In the nurfery, 

 however, if there be two inches above ground, it 

 is fufficient. Dire&ions as to preparing for, and 

 making plantations of Willows, both for hoops and 

 baJfket-work, are given in the Appendix, No. I. 



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