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great height, with a clean straight stem, rendering it fit 

 for a great variety of purposes where length of solid timber 

 or planking is required. Its growth is very rapid, the 

 annual increase of tirnher in trees of hetween twenty 

 and thirty years old, having been found to he at the 

 rate of one cubic foot and a half; such appears to be 

 the result of the measurement of five trees at Woburn 

 Abbey, the particulars of which are detailed in the " Ar- 

 boretum Britannicum," and we find that a similar increase 

 took place in willows of this species planted by Mr. Gorrie 

 on the northern bank of the carse of Go wry in Perthshire. 

 At Twizell, in Northumberland, upon soil of moderate 

 quality, being a stiffish loam, its growth has been equally 

 rapid, and we have just measured a tree planted about 

 eighteen years ago, whose height is upwards of fifty feet, 

 with a trunk six feet four inches in circumference at 

 two feet from the ground ; others growing near to this 

 individual are loftier, but none of them equal it in girth, 

 the two next being, the one five feet four inches, the 

 other four feet six inches in circumference. 



The simple, and at the same time the very cheap mode 

 of propagating the Willow is also another great advantage 

 attending its cultivation, for all that is required to form 

 a plantation is to take cuttings of wood one or two years 

 old from a foot to two or more in length, and plunge 

 them to the depth of eight or ten inches into the soil ; 

 stakes also of a larger size, or from six to eight feet long, 

 and from two to three inches in diameter, succeed very 

 well, and are recommended by Mr. Gorrie ; but having 

 tried both methods, we prefer the smaller cuttings, and 

 think our finest trees are from these. 



As a hedge-row tree the White Willow succeeds very 

 well in low and sheltered districts, attaining a great size, 



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