"The is most appropriately named, for, in addition to the pensive drooping appearance of its branches, it is common to see little drops of water, which stand like fallen tears upon the leaves. The willow will grow in any but a dry soil, but most delights and best thrives in the immediate neighbourhood of water."
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Elizabeth Kent (writer)
1790 β 1861
Elizabeth "Bess" Kent (1790β1861) was an English botanical and horticultural writer, noteworthy as a member of the . Her best known work, Flora Domestica (1823), quoted extensively from and , who was her brother-in-law.
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