GOAT WILLOW, OR LARGE-LEAVED SALLOW 



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attains a height of from thirty to forty feet, with a trunk 

 from a foot to a foot and a half in diameter. It seldom, 

 however, possesses any considerable length of clean stem, 

 as the branches which form the head, generally begin to 

 divide at a moderate 

 height, and, diverging 

 in different directions, 

 give it the bearing and 

 appearance of a com- 

 pact, round-headed tree. 



The foliage, unless 

 seen directly from 

 above, (when it ap- 

 pears entirely of a deep 



green,) has, from the mixture of the whitish under sur- 

 face of the leaves with the deeper green of the upper, 

 a dull glaucous appearance, which we have seen produce 

 a good effect in cer- 

 tain situations and in 

 contrast with the foli- 

 age of a different and 

 livelier hue. 



It grows in almost 

 all soils and situations, 

 but prefers dry loams, 

 and in such attains its 

 greatest size ; and as 

 the female plants are 

 numerous and produce 

 abundance of perfect 



seed, it propagates itself very extensively throughout the 

 whole of Britain. Our associations as connected with 

 this tree, are all of a pleasing description ; it reminds 



