. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. YELLOW WILLOW. GOLDEN OSIER. Salix vitellina Koch.^. Fig. loi. Section of branchlet with mature fruit, i ; empty capsules, 2 ; tip of vigorous shoot, 3leafless branchlet in winter, 4. 102. Trunk of tree, in Lewis Co., N. Y. Handbook of Trees of the Xortiieiin States and Canada. S9 This large and beautiful VVillOw, like theBrittle Willow, is an immigrant from the OldWorld, and so prolific is it and so adapted toour climatif conditions that it is now growingspontaneously on the banks of almo
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. YELLOW WILLOW. GOLDEN OSIER. Salix vitellina Koch.^. Fig. loi. Section of branchlet with mature fruit, i ; empty capsules, 2 ; tip of vigorous shoot, 3leafless branchlet in winter, 4. 102. Trunk of tree, in Lewis Co., N. Y. Handbook of Trees of the Xortiieiin States and Canada. S9 This large and beautiful VVillOw, like theBrittle Willow, is an immigrant from the OldWorld, and so prolific is it and so adapted toour climatif conditions that it is now growingspontaneously on the banks of almost everystream that Hows through the populatedregions of the middle and eastern states andCanada. Its bright yellow branches, especiallyconspicuous in early spring before the appear-ance of the leaves, are seen in greater abun-dance even than most of our native size and habit of growth it is a noble treesometimes attaining the height of 70 or 80 short thifk trunk :i-) ft. in diameterclotlietl in a dark gray bark rougli with promi-nent scaly ridges. It divides near the groundinto a few large branches, which radiate outand form a rath
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