. The American farm book : or, Compend of American agriculture ; being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, and every staple product of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market ;illustrated by more than 100 engravings. Agriculture. 892 AyERICAX AGE-ICrLTCRE. There are two species of willow usually zb shade trees. The White Wiliovc (Fig. 72, "vrhich is rather a superannuated spe- cimen) generally occupies a lov/, moist situation, on the b
. The American farm book : or, Compend of American agriculture ; being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, and every staple product of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market ;illustrated by more than 100 engravings. Agriculture. 892 AyERICAX AGE-ICrLTCRE. There are two species of willow usually zb shade trees. The White Wiliovc (Fig. 72, "vrhich is rather a superannuated spe- cimen) generally occupies a lov/, moist situation, on the brink of some rivulet or stream It is nearly valueless except in the shade it affords. The bright orange twigs and branches furnish an unfaili-ig supply of primitive whistles for the youngsters in the spring. The Weeping Willow is a tree of variegated foliage, and long flexile twigs, sometimes trailing the ground for yards in lengih. Its soft, silver}- leaves are among the earliest of spring, and the last to maintain their verdure in autunm. But its wood is of little value. The Locust (Fig. 73) is a beautiful tree, of rapid growth, flowering profusely, with its layers or massive flakes of innumerable leaflets of ihe deepest verdure. The wood is unrivalled for durabili- ' ty as ship timber, except by the live-oak ; and for jxjsts or exposure to the weather, it is ex- ceeded only by the savin or red cedar. It has ?"f late years, been subject to severe attacks and Fig. 73. great injury from the borer, a ?tvorm against whose ravages hitherto, there has been no successful remedy. The Button-icood, Sycamore, Plane-tree or Water-beach, by all of which names it is kno^vn in different parts of this coimtry, is of gigantic dimensions when occupying a rich and moist, alluvial soil. One found on the banks of the Ohio measured 47 feet in circumference, at a height of four feet from the ground. Its lofty mottled trunk, its huge irregular limbs, and its numerous pendant bails (in which ar
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