182 PHEASANTS 



growth, while all four have the common 

 disadvantage of slow growth. 



Marginal Tbebs 



Hawthorn {Crattegut Otcy- TheAnglo-Saxonhaeg-thorn 

 acantha), indigenous. or hedge-thorn clearlyin- 



dicates its customary use. 

 Will attain a heigh;t of 

 40 feet under natural 

 growth. The familiar 

 crimson berries stay long 

 on thenakedbranchesand 

 are a fair food for game ; 

 not proof against rabbits. 



Willow, Huntingdon {Salia: Of rapid growth ; makes 

 alba), indigenous. good sheuer in poor, wet 



soils and marshy places. 



The golden, purple and scarlet willows 

 are varieties of the above, and — if regularly 

 cut over — the young growth makes a 

 pretty bit of colour in winter. The late 

 John Simpson produced a natural seedUng 

 variety called the Game-Covert willow, 

 which he claimed would flourish in the 

 driest and poorest soil, where no other 

 willow could hope to hold its own, and 

 make perfect cover in the second year. 

 The stock of this willow is cultivated at 

 the Craigmillar Nurseries near Edinburgh, 

 and if it be as rapid in growth and as in- 

 different to soil as is claimed for it, this 



