34 WILLOW. 



any valuable property which this timber pos- 

 sesses. The finest of these I ever met with 

 were growing fifty years ago, in Nuneham 

 Park, at the entrance gates, in those days the 

 seat of Earl Harcoort. 



WILLOW, (HUNTINGDON.) 



This is a very profitable timber from the 

 quickness of its growth, and for the many 

 purposes to which in a few years it becomes 

 applicable, being in Huntingdonshire and 

 Cambridgeshire, and many other counties, 

 grown as pollards, the poles of which are sold 

 to hurdle-makers or hop-growers; it is also 

 used for the rims of riddles, and for cart and 

 wheelbarrow side boards, and it indents with- 

 out splintering from blows or hard usage, 

 and had not wood pavements been abandoned 

 would have formed more durable blocks for 

 such paving than any other timber, "if a 

 sufficient supply of it could have been ob- 

 tained," as the late Mr. George Stephenson 



