THE WILLOW. 



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Tlirc, tibi quag semper vicino ab limite ssepes, 



Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti, 



SjFpe levi somniim suadebit inire susurro. — Ec. i. 



^- The Willow-hedge, which parts your neighbour's land, 

 To bees of Hybla yields unfailing store 

 Of sw etest nectar, and with constant hum 

 imicjs repose.'' 



O'viixg perhaps to the association of the Willow 

 with the Palm, in the passage quoted from Le- 

 viticus, blossoms of Willow, under the name of 



Palms," are in some parts 

 of Great Britain worn on 

 the day which commemo- 

 rates our blessed Lord's 

 triumphal entry into Jeru- 

 salem. At Lanark, ac- 

 cord^'Tif^ to ancient usage, 

 " ' "J )^ s of the Grammar- 

 sciiocl parade the streets 

 on the day before, carrying 

 a Willow-tree in blossom 

 ornamented with daffodils 

 and other spring flowers. 

 A. writer in the Every-day 

 says,—'' It is still 



, ^:r» ary with men and 

 boys 1 ' go a palming in 

 London early on Palm Sun- 

 day morning ; that is, by 

 gathering branches of the 

 Willow, with their grey, 

 shining, velvet-looking buds, from those trees 

 in the vicinity of the metropolis; they come 

 home with slips in their hats, and sticking in 

 the breast button-holes of their coats, and a 



