the estimated quantity cut per acre at each cutting. The total
area returned was 6,000 acres, of which over 50 per cent. was in
the eight counties, Somerset, Dorset, Gloucester, Nottingham.
Stafford, Lancashire, Berkshire and Suffolk. Very few osiers or
willows seem to be grown in the northern division of England or
in Wales. About three-fourths of the total area is reported to be
cut over almost every year, the produce being used for basket
making or for tying bundles of vegetables for market., &c. The
average annual production of this nature is estimated at nearly
14,000 tons. The remainder of the area is cut approximately
every seven or eight years, the produce being used in the maiD
for fencing, stakes and hurdle making, and sometimes for crate
making, the average annual production being about 2,500 tons.
These estimates do not include the willows which grow ip
many parts of the country alongside streams for which it if
practically impossible to obtain information on which an estimate
of the production could be based, nor do they include willows
which are used for bat making and which will not be cut mor
often than about once in twenty years.