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| | Willow Tree |
 | | The wood especially that of the White Willow (Salix alba), is made into paper pulp, besides affording the best charcoal for artists' crayons; whilst, not to mention the undoubted value of the bark for tanning purpose. |
 | | The wood of the Crack Willow (Salix fragilis) being durable, light, and pliant, is used for wash-boards to mills, and for the bottoms of carts and barrows, and, though seldom now so employed, was long ago recommended by Matthew both for house-timbers and for naval purposes. |
 | | The young bark is brown, harmonizing with the broad, polished leaves, whose fragrance gives the plant its name; and the species is noticeable on the banks of our northern rivers as the latest of the Willows in flowering. |
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