Show pa if I a the billow in lie pa telegraph Tel graph we find ome suggestions concerning alio llio cultivation of willows from which our readers anny be glean some valuable idea many years ao n large amount of willows were raised within ron ten to twenty mile of to making purpose noil con amount n yet raised bul nothing near what was grawi in benin iono by we ilo nt kenw eliy there giai been chii fulling off for anu auker tell the pi ices they pay osier growing must be profitable we have not to kimii l any statistics as the actual profits to mideon an acre of willow or imle eil of alie product but from the fact that the willow when grown in this way doea not inucci interfere with lie growth of araa about it that from one to two long of gras to the acre can bo lial from u lot of willow land would seem to illicito that something good to i made out of it the willows cost vry little in the way of expense they ha e to bo aired for to bo aure when young or gitsa and weeda if they do not sm ither them out will interfere very much with their growth then aliis care lia to ha kept up for three or four years as iiii liia long before a willow plant will be strong enough to cut back o HS to throw out many strong shoots but ahee strong stocks once brought up no more labor as the bay cr of alio llio willow at leasil philadelphia will cut aid carry an ay iy themselves doing their own and whatever is necessary to bring tho shoots into a proper condition for ue thu finla mast generally employed about tho white gray and purple willow tho last be ing a delicie delic ie kind for ino work the last kind the purple willow is not perhaps sowell a cited bog in grusd AS a and it i too delicate dr licate to grov very high and it to give it all alie ground to itself in fjor we have seen chii kind grow in this vic it so occupied all the ground AS wo haye said we have no facts or figures of any account to liand but it bonns on a firs view thit more might b made of it than has becu done the invention of ft pro beai fir softening wood so as to fai it for basket m aking and yet not aft t caits en liin kiy pos sibly t bome extent interfere with alb grofils of tho willow but a to driving it ut of cultivation th e willow is io cisily rosed an will grow in land more worthless than any of the and along streams and swampy where nothing else use would grow and BO rapidly to as in some baies to admit ol 01 two cuttings i year intact hat erca may bjone in the way of softening or teaming of oak hickory ali and othar hard for the purpose of brisket bukin etc it idaa thus fir male but lit la progress and assuredly lint enough to drive ai any lime in lie future trie willow out of cultivation |