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the Long-leaved Yellow Sallow, the Creeper, the Black low Willow, the cHAP. XX. 

 Willow-bay, and the Ozier. 1 begin with the Withy. ^-^"y^ 



2. The Withy is a reasonably large tree, (for some have been found withy. 



serrated, and waved on their edges. The flowers are long catkins, which come out early in 

 the spring from the sides of the branches, and they soon aiford a large quantity of down. 



15. SALIX C HASTATA J foliis serratis glabris subovatis acutis sessilibus, stipulis subcordatis. 

 Lin. Sp. PI. 14)43. The hastated willow. 



This a middle-sized tree, sending out several long green shoots from the stools, which are 

 very full of pith, but nevertheless tough and useful for the basket-maker. The leaves are 

 nearly oval, acute, smooth, serrated, sit close to the branches, and have very broad appendices 

 to their cases. The flowers are an oblong yellow catkin, and come out in the spring from 

 the sides of the young shoots. 



The Willow belongs to the class and order Bioecia Diandria, having male and female 

 flowers on separate plants, and whose male-flowers have two stamina. The flowers of that 

 species called the Sallow, make their appearance about the eleventh of March, and the 

 leaves are out by the seventh of April. The leaves of the Weeping Willow appear about 

 the first of that month ; and the buds of the White Willow swell about the tenth. By the 

 eighteenth, the leaves are quite out, and the flowers full blown. The catkins of the Sallow 

 are formed about the fifth of October. 



The Willow, Sallow, and Ozier, from the quickness of their growth, naturally claim the 

 attention of such gentlemen as have lands suitable to their cultivation ; and indeed the im- 

 mediate profit that they yield makes them a desirable object of attention. In order to 

 raise a bed of Oziers the ground should be dug over, or ploughed ; but where expense is 

 not a consideration, the preference should be given to the spade. The cuttings must then 

 be procured ; and although they should consist chiefly of the true Ozier kinds, yet other 

 sorts must be introduced into the Ozier bed^ to make it complete, and more useful to the 

 basket^-makei-, who will want the different sorts for the different purposes of his trade. 

 Besides the true Ozier, of which the plantation is chiefly to consist, there must be the 

 Sallow, the long-shooting Green Willow, the Crane Willow, the Golden Willow, the Silver 

 Willow, the Welch Wicker, &c. ; by which names they are best known. 



The cuttings should be of two years' wood, though the bottom parts of the strongest 

 one-year shoots may do. They ought to be two feet and a half long, a foot and a half of 

 which should be thrust into the ground, and the other foot should remain for the stool. 

 These cuttings should be put in at two feet two inches distance each way ; and all the sum* 

 mer following, the weeds must be kept under ; the summer after that, the tallest of the 

 weeds should be hacked down. The Willows must continue growing for three years, 

 when they should be all cut down to the first-planted head. They will sell well to the 

 hurdle-maker ; and there will be a regular quantity of proper stools left, to exhibit an an- 

 nual crop of twigs, which will be worth five or six pounds, or more, per acre, to be sold to 

 the basket-maker. But the price of the twigs is greater or less, in proportion to the nature 



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