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suit's bark. To which the venerable Evelyn 

 adds, " all kinds of basket work, pill-boxes? 

 cart saddle trees, gunstocks, and half pikes, 

 harrows, shoemaker's lasts, heels, clogs for 

 pattens, forks, rakes, perches, rafters for 

 hovels, ladders, poles for hop vines, hurdles, 

 sieves, lattices for the turner in making tops, 

 platters, small casks and vessels, especially 

 to preserve verjuice in ; pales, dorsers, fruit 

 baskets, cans, hives, trenchers, trays," &c. &c, 

 to which we may add cricket bats, and nume- 

 rous other articles where lightness and tough- 

 ness of wood are desirable. 



The wood of the willow although tender, 

 has the property of whetting knives like a 

 whetstone; therefore all knife boards should 

 be formed of this tree in preference to any 

 other. 



The bark of the common white willow will 

 tan leather and dye yarn of a cinnamon 

 colour. The Arabs distil their celebrated 

 calaf water from the catkins of any species in 

 which they are fragrant. They use this water 

 as a cooling beverage, or as a febrifuge. In 

 Persia they obtain one of their most esteemed 

 perfumes from the flowers of several kinds of 

 willow. 



The downy substance that covers the seeds 



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