Salix nigra 'Webb' Edmund Cuthbert allow room for a fifty-

allow room for a fifty- to seventy-foot crown

baked the terminal buds

and salt air

even boggy ground of swamps

Salix nigra 'Webb' Edmund Cuthbert allow room for a fifty-Salix nigra, the black willow, is the largest native willow of North America and a common deciduous tree of Southern wetlands, but 'Webb' is a strikingly different, vase shaped form that gathers those loose, streamside branches into a small, dense, upright tree. The habit sets the selection apart at once, tidy and shapely where the wild black willow sprawls, while keeping all the toughness and easy water loving vigor of the species. The story behind