The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . ich we rarely recognise inleaf. The twigs are usually cut when the little furry catkins peepout in late winter. Florists in Eastern cities buy large quantitiesof these twigs in winter, and force them out for the early The Heart Willow (S. cordata), a shrub in the East, hasa Western variety, Macken^ieana, Hook., that assumes the treehabit and size. It extends from the far North to the RockyMountains in Idaho and west into California. The narrowleaves are acute at the ap
The tree book : A popular guide to a knowledge of the trees of North America and to their uses and cultivation . ich we rarely recognise inleaf. The twigs are usually cut when the little furry catkins peepout in late winter. Florists in Eastern cities buy large quantitiesof these twigs in winter, and force them out for the early The Heart Willow (S. cordata), a shrub in the East, hasa Western variety, Macken^ieana, Hook., that assumes the treehabit and size. It extends from the far North to the RockyMountains in Idaho and west into California. The narrowleaves are acute at the apex and bear minute kidney-shapedstipules throughout the summer. It is an extremely variablewillow. The Hooker Willow (5. Hookeriana, Hook.) has broad,oblong leaves, blunt at apex, and white below, with hoary tomen-tum. It is the little willow of sand dunes and salt marshes fromVancouver Island to southern Oregon. Its hoary twigs furtheridentify it. It rarely grows above 30 feet in height. Bebbs Willow (Salix Bebbiana, Sarg.)—Small tree, withshort trunk, 10 to 20 feet high, with downy twigs and smooth, 160. THE PUSSY WILLOW (Salix discolor)This is the familiar bog willow whose grey, silky catkins appear in earliest spring. People rarely see this tree in summer
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