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There, when properly introduced, not in too gieat abun- 
dance, hanging over some rustic bridge, or cool jutting 
spring, and supported, and brought into harmony with 
surrounding vegetation by such other graceful and light- 
sprayed trees as the Birch and Weeping elm, its effect is 
often surpassingly beautiful and appropriate. There it is 
one oi the first in the vernal season to burst its buds, and 
mirror its soft green foliage in the flood beneath, and one 
of the last in autumn to yield its leafy vesture to the 
chilling frosts, or fitful gusts of approaching winter. 
We consider the Weeping willow ill calculated for a 
place near a mansion which has any claims to size, mag- 
nificence, or architectural beauty ; as it does not in any 
way contribute by its form or outline to add to or 
strengthen such characteristics in a building. The only 
place where it can be happily situated in this way, is in 
the case of very humble or inconspicuous cottages, which 
we have seen much ornamented by being completely 
hidden, as it were, beneath the soft veil of its streaming 
foliage. 
There is a very singular variety of the Weeping willow 
cultivated in our gardens, under the name of the Ringlet 
willow ; which is so remarkable in the form of its foliage, 
and so different from all other trees, that it is well worth a 
place as a curiosity. Each leaf is curled round like a ring 
or hoop, and the appearance of a branch in full foliage is 
not unlike a thinly curled ringlet ; whence its comm or 
name. It forms a neat, middle-sized tree, with drooping 
branches, though hardly so pendent as the Weeping 
willow. 
The uses of the willow are extremely numerous. Abroad 
it is extensively cultivated in coppices, for timber and fuel, 
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